medico
noun
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
medico
1 American
[med-i-koh]
/ ˈmɛd ɪˌkoʊ /
noun
Informal.
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medicos
plural
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a physician or surgeon; doctor.
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a medical student.
medico-
2
American
medico-
1
British
combining form
medico
2
British
/ ˈmɛdɪˌkəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of medico1
1680–90; < Spanish médico, Italian medico < Latin medicus physician; see medical
Origin of medico-2
Combining form representing Latin medicus of, pertaining to healing; see medical
Example Sentences
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Hat, coat, small leather attaché case, like an Old World medico doing his rounds.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
Dr. Adams, who goes by the nickname Patch Adams, was featured in the 1998 film by the same name, in which Robin Williams played the zany medico.
From Washington Times ● May 25, 2018
An Iowa medico had to take to a bobsled to get to his childbirth case.
From Time Magazine Archive
A leading U.S. medico got off some unusually blunt talk last week on the high cost of medical care.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then comes the village medico, healthy and shrewd and kindly, with a firm belief—alas! that day is gone now—in black draught and blue pill.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
There has been, especially in Germany, a great deal of medico- philosophical exposure of the under-side of life since 1880.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
In the 21st century, most vampires don’t sup on human victims — consider the contagions they might pick up — but acquire their blood supply through friends and unscrupulous medicos.
From Time ● Apr. 9, 2014
Indeed, as soon as the roving medicos alight in a village, mothers with sickly children slung on their backs converge on the teams.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2012
For immediate treatment of Patient DiMaggio the medicos prescribed injections of novocaine and saline to ease the pain, plus local X-ray applications.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
I thought sharply, because most medicos are telepath, not perceptive.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
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