medical officer

1. 1.

   a medical practitioner in the armed forces

   Synonymsmedic

   Broadermedical practitioner

   Narrowerflight surgeonSurgeon General

   Part ofmilitary

Questions about medical officer

What does medical officer mean?

medical officer means "a medical practitioner in the armed forces".

What is another word for medical officer?

Close synonyms include medic. 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 medical officer a common word?

medical officer 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.