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physicians' assistant

physicians' 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 physicians' assistant

pluralphysicians' assistants

Questions about physicians' assistant

What is physicians' assistant the alternative form of?
Physicians' assistant is the alternative form of physician assistant.

Words near physicians' assistant in the dictionary

  1. physicianesses
  2. physicianless
  3. physicianlike
  4. physicianly
  5. physicians
  6. physicians' assistant
  7. physicians' assistants
  8. physicianship
  9. physicianships
  10. physicism
  11. physicist

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