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medico

[med-i-koh] / ˈmɛd ɪˌkoʊ /


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Hat, coat, small leather attaché case, like an Old World medico doing his rounds.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019

Dr. Adams, who goes by the nickname Patch Adams, was featured in the 1998 film by the same name, in which Robin Williams played the zany medico.

From Washington Times ● May 25, 2018

All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is the nation's most ubiquitous, most widely maligned, and perhaps most influential medico.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the last that had been seen of the medico; but Rory found a slate in the dispensary, into which sanctum, by the way, he had no right to pop even his nose.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables

In the 21st century, most vampires don’t sup on human victims — consider the contagions they might pick up — but acquire their blood supply through friends and unscrupulous medicos.

From Time ● Apr. 9, 2014

Indeed, as soon as the roving medicos alight in a village, mothers with sickly children slung on their backs converge on the teams.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2012

Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several eminent U.S. medicos have recently been carrying on a lively posthumous psychiatric analysis of General Custer in the medical journals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, he turned to an' began sailoring first off—soon as the hospitals and medicos were done with him—an' him not having any friends as you might say, he was let go his own gait.

From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris




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