veterinaryadj.n.
/ˈvɛt(ə)rᵻn(ə)ri/, /ˈvɛt(ᵻ)n(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvɛdərəˌnɛri/, /ˈvɛtrəˌnɛri/, /ˈvɛtnˌɛri/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or concerned with the medical or surgical treatment of diseased or injured animals, originally and especially farm and domestic animals.Earliest in veterinary art n. at Compounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [adjective]
veterinary1678
veterinarian1716
vet1803
1678 Catalogus Librorum ex Bibliotheca Nobilis Cujusdam Angli 62 Markhams Masterpiece, of the Veterinary Art.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 353 Old Veterinary Authours [L. veterinarij authores] write, that so the Spleen may be wasted in Horses and Slaves.
1766 Monthly Rev. 35 App. 535 That book was not the tenth part of those intended to be published for the veterinary students.
1784 London Med. Jrnl. 4 112 John Wolstein, M.D. Professor of Veterinary Physic at Vienna.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1016/1 Veterinary College, London. Established April 8, 1791. For the..Improvement of Farriery, and the Treatment of Cattle.
1835 H. Harewood Dict. Sports at Clystering They may be purchased at any of the veterinary instrument makers in London.
1865 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 4/6 Medical or veterinary problems are regarded by some as absolutely incapable of definite solution.
1919 F. Smith Early Hist. Vet. Lit. I. 112 ‘Mourning of the chine’, a disease which continued to appear in veterinary works for some centuries.
1940 Brit. Red Cross Soc. Cookery & Catering Man. (ed. 4) vi. 73 Accredited Milk is raw milk from cows which have passed a veterinary examination.
1979 Review No. 6. 15/1 The three veterinary colleges in Canada..graduate only about 250 veterinarians each year.
2012 D. Quammen Spillover iv. 26 After graduation in 1976, he worked in a mixed veterinary practice in Brisbane.
B. n.† 1. Veterinary medicine, veterinary art. Obsolete. rare.
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1699 J. Drake & A. Baden tr. D. Le Clerc Hist. Physick iv. i. 371 There is yet another Hippocrates among the Greek Authors who wrote of Veterinary [Fr. la Vétérinaire], or the Physick of Beasts.
2. A veterinary surgeon, a veterinarian; a vet.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian
veterinarian1646
leecha1656
veterinary surgeon1795
veterinary1829
vet1862
V.S.1952
1829 Delaware Weekly Advertiser & Farmers Jrnl. 13 Aug. Experience has been our first guide, and this experience has been enlightened by principles universally recognized by wise agriculturists as well as physicians and veterinaries.
1859 J. Blackwood Let. 24 July in George Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 121 The animal is..under charge of..the veterinary of the Mounted Police.
1904 St. Nicholas May 592/1 The veterinary who came to see him did all he could to afford him relief.
1958 D. C. Jarvis Folk Med. viii. 88 When the veterinary was called, he could not decide what was wrong.
2008 R. Raisin God's Own Country ix. 64 It's not all fluffy lambs in blankets suckling milk from a bottle in front the fire..—it's being a veterinary, a dentist, a knacker, [etc.].
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veterinary art n. veterinary medicine, especially before its establishment on a scientific basis; also in plural in same sense.
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1678 Catalogus Librorum ex Bibliotheca Nobilis Cujusdam Angli 62 Markhams Masterpiece, of the Veterinary Art.
1784 London Med. Jrnl. 4 325 Plan of a catalogue of books relating to the veterinary art.
1793 Med. Commentaries for 1792 Decade 2nd 7 215 There are some [physicians] who ought to be acquainted with the elements of rural œconomy, and of the veterinary arts.
1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 218 The veterinary art, or the art of healing as applied to animals, has only within these few years been separately studied in England.
1894 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 28 Jan. 15/2 Their parents and grandparents..had the same unreliable way of getting on in the world. The..men assuming to have veterinary arts and working a little at the blacksmith trade.
1971 Statesville (N. Carolina) Record & Landmark 4 Nov. a13/4 Dr. Tyner, who has practiced the veterinary arts here for the past 20 years, said the new animal hospital will contain 3,600 square feet.
1994 Times 19 Mar. He was a prime mover in the transition from the traditional practice of the veterinary art, as it was pre-1939, to the science-based profession that now exists.
veterinary entomology n. the branch of entomology concerned with insects and other arthropods that are parasites or disease vectors affecting animals, especially farm and domestic animals.Often combined with the study of those affecting humans, as medical and veterinary entomology.
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1909 Univ. Calif. Reg. 1908–09 iii. 177 Veterinary Entomology. Assistant Professor Herms. A study of the relation of insects to diseases of domesticated animals.
1915 W. B. Herms (title) Medical and Veterinary Entomology.
1962 Times 15 May 2 (advt.) Senior ecologist for cattle tick and other veterinary entomology investigations.
2012 P. G. Bates External Parasites of Small Ruminants p. vii Since leaving the VLA to set up as an independent veterinary entomology consultant, I decided that now was the time to record my accrued knowledge and experiences in the subject.
veterinary medicine n. the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in animals, originally and especially farm and domestic animals.
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1790 Gentleman's Mag. i. 496/1 The important subject of Veterinary Medicine.
1834 W. Percivall Hippopathology I. 43 The modern medical nomenclature..will be found very convertible and appropriate in veterinary medicine.
1915 Paper-maker & Brit. Paper Trade Jrnl. Jan. 61/2 An American professor of veterinary medicine is..directing a campaign the object of which is to banish all watering troughs and substitute individual drinking buckets for horses.
2002 Cat Fancy Apr. 45/2 A detection technique..used in early cancer detection in humans has found its way to veterinary medicine.
veterinary science n. the science encompassing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in animals, originally and especially farm and domestic animals; (also) a branch of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun]
veterinary medicine1790
veterinary science1790
veterinarianism1816
1790 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 299/2 Such rural matter as comes within the pale of veterinary science.
1805 Morning Post 28 Jan. (advt.) Wants a situation, a young man, who is perfectly acquainted with the equestrian as well as the veterinary sciences.
1919 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Daily Herald 18 Sept. 1/2 The problem of providing for many soldiers asking instruction in the veterinary sciences.
1973 Nature 27 Apr. 595/2 Plant pathology..is to plants what the whole of medicine and veterinary science is to man and animals.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald 29 Oct. 10 The traditional five-year bachelor of veterinary science has been running for more than a century.
veterinary surgeon n. chiefly British a person skilled or professionally qualified in the medical and surgical treatment of diseased or injured animals, originally and especially farm and domestic animals.Frequently abbreviated as vet n.2The more usual term outside the United Kingdom is veterinarian.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian
veterinarian1646
leecha1656
veterinary surgeon1795
veterinary1829
vet1862
V.S.1952
1795 in E. Weatherby & J. Weatherby Racing Cal. 22 373 (advt.) Mr. Moorcroft, Veterinary Surgeon..respectfully informs the public, that he has now opened a Dispensary.
1809 European Mag. 55 22 The ancient farriers of our metropolis have conferred on themselves a title highly pre-eminent, that of veterinary surgeon.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 393/2 If an experimental hospital could..be established under the care of a veterinary surgeon.
1874 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 3 Jan. 3/2 I have consulted the veterinary surgeon, and he says it is a heat, which the horse must have got some time.
1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre ii. 18 She was born in Jersey, where her father..practised as a veterinary surgeon.
2004 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 1 Dec. 3 To train to be a veterinary surgeon you will need to go to university and take a veterinary degree.
veterinary surgery n. (a) the surgical treatment of diseased or injured animals, originally and especially farm and domestic animals; (b) a place where a veterinary surgeon treats animals.
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1803 Star 26 Mar. (advt.) The most modern and approved Works on Anatomy,..Natural History, Veterinary Surgery, &c.
1804 Morning Chron. 15 June (advt.) Spacious covered Veterinary Surgery and Farriery, convertible to many useful purposes.
1840 Med. Times 12 Sept. 299/3 This chart..should find a place in all veterinary surgeries.
1940 Our Dumb Animals Sept. 139/2 In the towns..only one or two posts have been found necessary and these have been made as far as possible at the veterinary surgeries.
1979 E. Bennion Antique Med. Instruments x. 224 An instrument peculiar to veterinary surgery is the Seton's needle.
2002 Time Off (Brisbane) 13 Feb. 33/1 Lovable klutz Corky..works in a veterinary surgery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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