medical practitioner

Questions about medical practitioner

What does medical practitioner mean?

medical practitioner means "someone who practices medicine".

What is another word for medical practitioner?

Close synonyms include medical man. 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 practitioner a common word?

medical practitioner 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.