physician

doctor, physician, surgeon, dentist

这些名词都有“医生”之意。
doctor: 泛指各科医生，即一切有行医资格的人。
physician: 指医院的内科医生。
surgeon: 指专修外科或专修人体某个部分的外科专科医生，这种医生一般需对患者进行手术治疗。
dentist: 指牙医。

名词 physician:

1. a licensed medical practitioner
   同义词：doctor, doc, MD, Dr., medico

1. Italian physician and pioneer educator who proposed a method of teaching young children that stresses the development of initiative and natural abilities.
   蒙台梭利，玛丽亚1870－1952意大利医师和教育家先驱，提出了强调发展儿童潜能的教育方法
2. Burglars ransacked the office of a91-year-old physician who is one of the last private doctors left in crime-ravaged Harlem, police said yesterday.
   警方昨天说，小偷把九十一岁内科医生的诊所洗劫一空。在罪犯横行的哈莱姆区，诊所已所剩无几。
3. A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.
   不住院的医生与一机构联合但不正式住在其中的人，尤指医院职员中不住院的内科医生
4. He was attended by his personal physician.
   他的私人医生护理他。