profesional sanitario

Definitions of profesional sanitario
  1. noun
    a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
    synonyms: sanitario
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    Hipócrates
    medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
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    ensalmador
    someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones
    practicante
    a person trained to assist medical professionals
    profesional de la medicina
    someone who practices medicine
    enfermera, enfermero
    one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
    apotecario, boticario, farmacéutico
    a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
    dentista, estomatólogo, odontólogo
    a person qualified to practice dentistry
    facultativo, médico
    a licensed medical practitioner
    infermera practicante
    a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick
    enfermera jefe
    a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution
    oficial médico
    a medical practitioner in the armed forces
    comadre, comadrona, matrona, partera
    a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
    farmacólogo
    someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)
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    profesional
    a person engaged in one of the learned professions
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