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physician's assistant

physician's assistant is the alternative form of physician assistant.

Meaning of physician assistant

Noun

physician assistant (plural physician assistants)

  1. A health care professional trained and licensed to perform a role similar to that of a physician but with somewhat narrower limits of authority; physician assistants and nurse practitioners have enough capabilities to be physician extenders, providing primary care and allowing physicians to spread their time across more patients.
    Synonyms:
    PA

Forms of physician's assistant

pluralphysician's assistants

Questions about physician's assistant

What is physician's assistant the alternative form of?
Physician's assistant is the alternative form of physician assistant.

Words near physician's assistant in the dictionary

  1. physician associates
  2. physician extender
  3. physician extenders
  4. physician finger
  5. physician fingers
  6. physician's assistant
  7. physician's assistants
  8. physician, heal thyself
  9. physician-assistant
  10. physicianary
  11. physiciancies

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