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• medico
  medico

  noun

  a physician or surgeon; doctor.
• medico-
  medico-

  a combining form representing medical in compound words.

medico

¹ American  

[med-i-koh] / ˈmɛd ɪˌkoʊ /

noun

Informal.

medicos plural

1. a physician or surgeon; doctor.

2. a medical student.

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medico- ² American  

1. a combining form representing medical in compound words.

   medicolegal.

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medico- ¹ British  

combining form

1. medical

   medicolegal

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medico ² British  

/ ˈmɛdɪˌkəʊ /

noun

1. a doctor or medical student

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• medicos
  plural

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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medico medico- medicos

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

The premiere of another soap-and-scalpel opera, this time starring Macdonald Carey as the melodramatic medico.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frequently we overheard the people say, "Tan joven," "So young:" "Es muchacho," "He is a boy;" for they associated the idea of age with that of a great medico.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

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 Gosse, Edmund

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

A special Reclassification Board at the assembly point, including psychiatrists, examines all cases marked "doubtful" by the medicos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words.

From Time Magazine Archive

I called him 'Herr Staff Surgeon' and mentioned the well-known skill of German medicos, and the keen sense of duty of the German army, and a whole lot of other stuff.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot

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