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priest-doctor

n. in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination [syn: shaman]

Usage examples of "priest-doctor".

He nodded to where a priest-doctor and his assistants were setting up, with a row of stretchers beside them.

Plenty of priest-doctors as well, although the Expeditionary Force's own medics would direct everything, having the experience with trauma.

It's an authorization to mobilize priest-doctors and medical nuns, with the necessary supplies and transport for immediate dispatch to Sandoral.

The Renunciates and priest-doctors moved quickly among them, checking pulses.

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.