physician

Meaning

Noun

• A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
• A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

Origin

• From Middle English fisicien, from Old French fisicïen ("physician") (modern French physicien ("physicist")), from fisique, from Latin physica ("natural science"), from Ancient Greek φυσική ἐπιστήμη ("knowledge of nature"), from φυσικός. Displaced native , archaic Modern English leech "physician" (from ).