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What is "medical practitioner"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
medical practitioner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All three occupants suffered multiple injuries and were certified dead at the crash site by a medical practitioner.
▪ From a medical practitioner familiar with the dementia sufferer.
▪ If the physical lighting is acceptable, and the eye-strain persists, consult your medical practitioner or an ophthalmic optician.
WordNet
medical practitioner

n. someone who practices medicine [syn: medical man]

Usage examples of "medical practitioner".

For the more conventional medical practitioner, though, this was bad for business, so French physicians pressured King Louis XVI to crack down.

However, in all cases, you should consult a qualified medical practitioner before using herbs in any form.

I understand that he is qualified as a medical practitioner in his own country, but not in Australia.

The medical practitioner who lives next me -- Porter is his name -- is a kindly sort of man, and knowing that I have had a long uphill fight, he has several times put things in my way.

And what, I wonder, are the prescriptive resources available to the medical practitioner on Cross Fell?

Rhombur spoke in a soothing tone, as if he were a medical practitioner.

Taste in all things was a constant between Dr Lecter's lives in America and Europe, between his life as a successful medical practitioner and fugitive monster.