| 释义 |
staff of aesculapius
Usage: usually capitalized A
Etymology: after Aesculapius, Greco-Roman god of medicine, from Latin, from Greek Asklēpios
: a conventionalized representation of a staff branched at the top with a single snake twined around it that is used as a symbol of medicine and as the official insignia of the American Medical Association — called also Aesculapian staff; compare caduceus |