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medico|ˈmɛdɪkəʊ|
Pl. medicoes, medicos.
[a. It. medico or Sp. médico: see medic.]
1. A medical practitioner; also, a medical student. Now slang or jocular.
1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. xv. 115 It is in the power of the Medico, to oblige the Husband. 1844Kinglake Eothen xviii. 308 The Medico held my chin in the usual way, and examined my throat. 1896Field 1 Feb. 173/2 Again did the Medicos force the ball down. 1915A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear i. iv. 53 The medicos will have a word to say before we finish. 1923A. Bennett Riceyman Steps i. x. 46 Dr. Raste would sometimes say with a dry, brief laugh, ‘we medicoes’. 1943A. Huxley Let. 7 May (1969) 489 One can only..pray that the army doctors aren't merely pumping him full of toxic sulfanilamide..which is what so many medicos do. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xv. 284 Leaving Hortense to the medicos, young and old, I went with Busse to the Gare de Lyon. 1971Lancet 23 Oct. 919/1 We really need a new word for doctor. Perhaps the Common Market will insist on a common term—medico perhaps? 1973Nature 6 Apr. 377/2 The twenty thousand or so scientists, engineers, medicos and so on on the staff of British universities.
‖2. Sp. Amer. The surgeon fish.
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