MEDICAL OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical officer mean? 

• MEDICAL OFFICER (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. a medical practitioner in the armed forces

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical practitioner in the armed forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

medic; medical officer

Hypernyms ("medical officer" is a kind of...):

medical man; medical practitioner (someone who practices medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical officer"):

flight surgeon (a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine)

Surgeon General (the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy)

Holonyms ("medical officer" is a member of...):

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 Context examples 

"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," according to Dr. Teodora Wi, a medical officer involved in human reproduction at the WHO, quoted in a news release from the UN agency.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)