medical assistant

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   a person trained to assist medical professionals

   Broaderhealth professional

Questions about medical assistant

What does medical assistant mean?

medical assistant means "a person trained to assist medical professionals".

Is medical assistant a common word?

medical assistant 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.