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locum
noun
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▪ A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation.
▪ But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place.
▪ In Ghosh, the accused, a surgeon acting as a locum in a hospital, claimed fees for performing operations.
▪ It's better than getting a locum in - they cost the earth and sometimes do more harm than good.
▪ Not that Joanna was like that when she did a locum in the practice where we met.
▪ Revised guidance due early this year will included strengthened guidance on these checks for hospital locums and other staff.
▪ The referring doctors included trainee general practitioners and locums as well as the partners.
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locum

n. (context British informal English) Abbreviated form of locum tenens#English.The '''Concise Oxford English Dictionary''' [Eleventh Edition]

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locum

n. someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession [syn: locum tenens]

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Locum

A locum is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another. For example, a locum physician is a physician who works in the place of the regular physician when that physician is absent, or when a hospital/practice is short-staffed. These professionals are still governed by their respective regulatory bodies, despite the transient nature of their positions.

The word locum is short for the Latin phrase ("place holder", akin to the French lieutenant). The abbreviated form "locum" is common in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom; unlike in Latin its plural is locums. In the United States, the full length "" (plural: ) is preferred, though for some particular roles, alternative expressions (e.g., " substitute teacher") may be more commonly used.

Usage examples of "locum".

Quorum omnis postea multitudo aquatorum unum in locum conveniebat sub ipsius oppidi murum, ubi magnus fons aquae prorumpebat ab ea parte, quae fere pedum CCC intervallo fluminis circuitu vacabat.

Sir Isaac Newton says: Hypotheses non fingo, quicquid enim ex phaenomenis non deducitur hypothesis vocanda est, et hypothesis vel metaphysicae, vel physicae, vel qualitatum occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophia locum non habent.

Quod cum crebrius accideret, ex captivo quodam comperit Caesar Correum, Bellovacorum ducem, fortissimorum milia sex peditum delegisse equitesque ex omni numero mille, quos in insidiis eo loco collocaret, quem in locum propter copiam frumenti ac pabuli Romanos missuros suspicaretur.

Barry Jones had gone back to his native Wales, no Guernsey candidate had presented him or herself for the vacancy, and Brian Bradshaw, with the evident support of John Coquelin, had offered the junior partnership to his locum, Anna.

Fort George to the harbour, where she had stayed with the Bradshaw dog an4 cats at the start of her time in Guernsey as locum for a holidaying Brian a six-month lifetime earlier.

Quis igitur Sesonchosis ille, qui, Menen antevertens annis amplius 5000, inter Semideos locum habere videatur?

Repulsi ab equitatu se in silvas abdiderunt, locum nacti egregie et natura et opere munitum, quem domestici belli, ut videbantur, causa iam ante praeparaverant: nam crebris arboribus succisis omnes introitus erant praeclusi.

Labienus faciendas curaverat numero LX, perpaucae locum caperent, reliquae fere omnes reicerentur.

Eo cum pervenisset, ad reliquas legiones mittit priusque omnes in unum locum cogit quam de eius adventu Arvernis nuntiari posset.

In eius locum tertiam decimam legionem in Italiam mittit quae praesidia tueretur, ex quibus praesidiis quinta decima deducebatur.

The local doc - the guy who'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier - was on holiday at the time and there was a locum, a deputising doctor in charge of the practice, except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday, too, and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope.