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physician-assistant

physician-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-assistant

pluralphysician-assistants

Questions about physician-assistant

What is physician-assistant the alternative form of?
Physician-assistant is the alternative form of physician assistant.

Words near physician-assistant in the dictionary

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

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