| 单词 | physician's assistant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphysician's assistant physician's assistant n. (also physician assistant) (a) (a physician in) a training post in a hospital (disused); (b) (chiefly U.S.) a person trained to a level intermediate between that of a physician and a nurse, who performs certain routine tasks and procedures formerly assigned only to physicians. ΚΠ 1817 Times 30 Apr. 4 M. Hall, M.D. formerly Senior President of the Royal Medical Society, and Physician's Assistant, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. 1889 Times 7 Sept. 13/3 The Physician's Assistant, Physician-Accoucheur's Assistant,..are selected by examination from amongst the Students. 1901 Lancet 18 May 1436/2 In 1862 he was appointed resident physician's assistant to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. 1958 C. R. Barnett et al. Poland xvii. 319 These physicians' assistants..received training midway between that for a doctor and that for a nurse. 1966 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 198 1108 The physician's assistant will be able to draw blood, start and regulate intravenous infusions, intubate the gastrointestinal tract, and do other procedures classically performed by the doctor. 2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 12 May xiii. 1/4 The person wearing the white coat may not be a doctor at all but a physician assistant, or PA. < as lemmas |
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