paradoctor
/ˈparəˌdɒktə/Chiefly US
noun
A doctor who is dropped by parachute to patients in remote areas.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Time. From para- + doctor.
- optical printer
- optical pumping
- optical pyrometer
- optical rotation
- optical rotatory dispersion
- optical scanner
- optical scanning
- optical sound
- optical square
- optical switch
- optical transistor
- optical trap
- viscid
- viscidity
- viscidium
- viscoelastic
- viscoelasticity
- viscometer
- viscometric
- viscometrically
- viscometry
- Visconti, Luchino
- viscose
- viscosimeter
- viscosity