veterinary

[ vet-er-uh-ner-ee, ve-truh- ]

noun

, plural vet·er·i·nar·ies.

1. a veterinarian.

adjective

1. of or relating to the medical and surgical treatment of animals, especially domesticated animals.

veterinary

/ ˈvɛtərɪnərɪ; ˈvɛtrɪnrɪ /

adjective

1. of or relating to veterinary medicine

Other Words From

• non·veter·i·nary adjective noun plural nonveterinaries

Word History and Origins

Origin of veterinary¹

1780–90; < Latin veterīnārius, equivalent to veterīn ( ae ) beasts of burden (noun use of feminine plural of veterīnus pertaining to such beasts, equivalent to veter-, stem of vetus old, i.e., grown, able to take a load + -īnus -ine ¹ ) + -ārius -ary

Word History and Origins

Origin of veterinary¹

C18: from Latin veterīnārius concerning draught animals, from veterīnae draught animals; related to vetus mature (hence able to bear a burden)

Example Sentences

She wore heavy personal protective equipment to work at a veterinary clinic, despite the worries of some of her colleagues that she would scare off clients.

From Fortune

With a positive result, we’d have to make tough choices based on the practicality of isolating an infected animal, the perceived danger of keeping an infected pet at home and any need for veterinary care.

From Ozy

Leonelli, for her part, now makes her money working for a friend’s veterinary pharmacy because it’s a cash-based business.

From Ozy

Of 30,000 dead camels that Wernery, a veterinary microbiologist at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai, and his team have examined since 2008, 300 had guts packed with plastic ranging from three to 64 kilograms.

From Science News

The FDA considers alterations to an animal’s genome to be just like a veterinary drug.

From MIT Technology Review

You should, according to Dr. Jeff Werber, Founder and Veterinarian at the Century Veterinary Group in Los Angeles.

From The Daily Beast

And the medical journal in which he describes the case is the Journal of American Veterinary Medicine Association.

From The Daily Beast

Animals were often left in the back "sick room" with little if any veterinary care.

From The Daily Beast

My next book project goes back to my lifelong interests in animals, veterinary medicine, science, and ethics.

From The Daily Beast

They stormed into law, medical, and veterinary schools, and female undergraduate enrollment surged.

From The Daily Beast

Doctor Baker was away, and in despair they had routed Mr. Dean out of bed—the pale young man who was studying to be a veterinary.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the Ipswich characters of my boyhood, of whom Mr. Glyde has preserved an anecdote, was old Tuxford, the veterinary surgeon.

From Project Gutenberg

The veterinary was here when Rags died, which was within fifteen minutes of the first spasm.

From Project Gutenberg

The first veterinary school in France had been founded at Lyons in 1762.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it invented by some fanciful traveller-horseman hindered on his way to Rome or Athens, by a saddler or a veterinary surgeon?

From Project Gutenberg