physicians
Sayfi-ZISH-uhnz/fɪˈzɪʃənz/
- 1Plural of physician.
Rural clinics often struggle to attract enough physicians to meet local demand.
The conference brought together physicians from a dozen specialties.
Note
A regular -s plural that keeps both meanings of its singular. Broadly, it covers medical doctors of any kind, as in physicians from a dozen specialties. Narrowly, it names practitioners of physic, who treat with medication, as distinct from surgeons, who operate. Context tells them apart: when physicians are set beside surgeons, the narrower meaning is in play.
physicians is a form of physician
physician, noun: A medical doctor who has been trained to treat illness and injury in people. Full entry
- Forms
- physicianphysicians plural
- Spelling
- physician → physicians: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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