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intransitive. To be engaged in the profession of law or of medicine.
intransitive. To provide medical treatment; to use or prescribe drugs or other medicines. rare.
intransitive. To follow or imitate Hippocrates of Kos; esp. to practise medicine in the manner of Hippocrates.