medico
noun
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
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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
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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
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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
This should indicate that Autobiographer Sutherland is no run-of-the-mill medico and the rest of his reminiscences, though often tantalizingly reticent, fulfill this youthful promise.
From Time Magazine Archive
For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness.
From Time Magazine Archive
An astonishing number of officers were brought forward by the doctors of each nationality for examination by the German medico!
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery E. Jeffery
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
While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland.
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
He gathered together materials for a declaration of war against the medicos, attacking them in their, apparently, most impregnable positions, and showing up, often through their own observations, the fatal inanity—in his eyes—of their therapeutics.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
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