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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
medico
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the six minutes before medics arrived, co-workers revived his heart rhythm with the help of the defibrillator, Wiley said.
▪ Obvious examples include inventors, medics and military men.
▪ Part of the mess were 2 dead medics who were sleeping on cots in the building.
▪ Pearson acknowledged that the new racial science could do little without the hearty co-operation of medics.
▪ The medics however, are reported to believe he will be fine for bench duty tomorrow.
▪ The lanky, 6-foot-4-inch captain coordinates the moves with military police, engineers, medics and rescue crews.
▪ The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds.
▪ Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
medico

medico \medico\ n.

  1. a student in medical school.

    Syn: medical student.

  2. A licensed medical practitioner. [slang]

    Syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
medico

"medical practitioner," 1680s, from Spanish médico or Italian medico, from Latin medicus (see medical (adj.)).

Wiktionary
medico

n. (context informal humorous English) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.

WordNet
medico
  1. n. a student in medical school [syn: medical student]

  2. a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr.]

Usage examples of "medico".

Consider the responsible and loving homeowner who has a Medico, a tumbler lock known as being pickproof, installed in his front door to protect his wife, his children, and his home.

Fallon away on a stretcher towards one of the choppers while a medico bandaged me up.

I have Lily moved into a private room, and get her all the nurses the law allows, and the best croakers in Montreal, and flowers, and one thing and another, but one of the medicos tells me it is even money she will not last three weeks, and 7 to 5 she does not go a month.

He put up the medicines, gathered the herbs, and so learned something of materia medico and botany.

Here, for instance, are the returns for 1870, of men of military age in some portions of the country: Arizona 5,157 Colorado 15,166 Dakota 5,301 Idaho 9,431 Montana 12,418 Nebraska 35,677 Nevada 24,762 New Hampshire 60,684 Oregon 23,959 Rhode Island 44,377 Vermont 62,450 West Virginia 6,832 It was more soldiers than could be raised to-day, under strong pressure, in either Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Dakota, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Medico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont or West Virginia.

K Crooked Chiropractors, Degenerate Dentists Medicare Medicos, Harlot Heart Surgeons Nutty Neurologists, Craven Cardiologists Improbable Proctologists, Petty Pornographers Huge Urologists, Incensed Internists Demoncats, all!

The medico sealed the bags containing the bodyparts of the two dead Kolnari and hastened to the intact casualty.

An ultra brawn, one of the prettiest boychicks I'd ever seen, a super-swishious fem that eclipsed the medico by several orders of magnitude, and an adorable nymphet.

They say his surgeon and another medico killed him with a black draught or something of that kind: but slowly, you understand me now, like the husband of one of those arsenic wives eager to be a widow but not choosing to swing for it.

The captain and CAG and Skipper Haldane were there on the flight deck with the medicos when the chopper landed, along with a couple hundred other guys.

Jannie tenne banco, descrivendo nei minimi partico­lari la sua seconda tomografia assiale computerizzata, che si era protratta per una buona mezz'ora, poi esclamò: «Ho deciso di diventare medico.

And the army's civilians: Priest-doctors and Renunciate nun medicos in their ambulance-clinics, cavalry troopers' servants afoot, officers' valets, sutlers, the loot-fences and slave-traders who followed war the way the vultures did, girls picked up in the days since the landing, enlisted men's wives smuggled aboard the transports against all regulations, the odd officer's lady on her palfrey.

We're aware that your medical treatment shouldn't take much more than a year, however, and as soon as the medicos sign off for your return to full, active duty, we'll find a replacement.