doctor of medicine

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   a doctor's degree in medicine

   SynonymsMD

   Broaderdoctor's degree

Questions about doctor of medicine

What does doctor of medicine mean?

doctor of medicine means "a doctor's degree in medicine".

What is another word for doctor of medicine?

Close synonyms include MD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doctor of medicine a common word?

doctor of medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.