medicos

noun

plural of medico
as in doctors
a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders a woman who is suspicious of all medicos, regardless of their credentials

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  1. doctors
  2. physicians
Noun
  • Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel and his brothers Zeke and Rahm have donated $550,000 towards a program to train Palestinian doctors from the West Bank at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Knight claimed that Afeni allegedly gave her son pills to end his life, though doctors brought him back.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of doctors
Noun
  • Hospital physicians would later detail her case in a 2019 medical journal article without naming X2.
    — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Swelling and spinal shock can cloud the earliest neurological picture, and physicians repeat examinations over time for good reason, as many people once given a grave prognosis go on to recover.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of physicians
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“Medicos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicos. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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