physician

A person trained and licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.

A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.

One who practises the art of healing disease and of preserving health; a prescriber of remedies for sickness and disease; specifically, a person licensed by some competent authority, such as a medical college, to treat diseases and pre scribe remedies for them; a doctor; a medical man.

A student of physics; a naturalist; a physicist; specifically, in medieval universities, a student of the Aristotelian physics.

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.