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nonphysician

nonphysician noun: one who is not a physician.

Noun

nonphysician (plural nonphysicians)

  1. One who is not a physician.
    • “Two Sides to Every Health Care Debate” serves as a microcosm of what is wrong with the dialogue on health care: nonphysician experts each offering inflexible, oversimplified, dogmatic solutions to isolated parts of an infinitely complex problem.2009 July 16, “Seeking Ways Out of the Health Maze”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    nondoctor

Synonyms of nonphysician

Forms of nonphysician

pluralnonphysicians
alternative formnon-physician

Origin of nonphysician

From non- + physician.

Questions about nonphysician

What does nonphysician mean?
Nonphysician means one who is not a physician.
What part of speech is nonphysician?
Nonphysician is a noun.
What is the plural of nonphysician?
The plural of nonphysician is nonphysicians.

Words near nonphysician in the dictionary

  1. nonphysic
  2. nonphysical
  3. nonphysicality
  4. nonphysically
  5. nonphysicalness
  6. nonphysician
  7. nonphysicians
  8. nonphysicist
  9. nonphysicists
  10. nonphysics
  11. nonphysiologic

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