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house officer

house officer noun: a physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.

Noun

house officer (plural house officers)

  1. A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.
    • The house officer may be intimidated by the broad range of choices of inotropic and vasoconstrictive agents at his disposal. It behooves the house officer to become familiar with a small number of drugs representing the various categories of effect and mechanism.2012, John A. Elefteriades, Curtis Tribble, Alexander S. Geha, House Officer's Guide to ICU Care, →ISBN
    • Throughout her penultimate and final years of medical school, she’d been consumed with visions of herself as a house officer. Taking delivery, scrubbing in for surgery, clerking a patient and drawing up an impeccable treatment plan.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 21

Forms of house officer

pluralhouse officers

Questions about house officer

What does house officer mean?
House officer means a physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.
What part of speech is house officer?
House officer is a noun.
What is the plural of house officer?
The plural of house officer is house officers.

Words near house officer in the dictionary

  1. house of refuge
  2. House of Representatives
  3. House of Song
  4. house of tolerance
  5. house of worship
  6. house officer
  7. house officers
  8. house organ
  9. house organs
  10. house painter
  11. house painters

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