PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physician-assisted suicide mean? 

• PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE (noun)
  The noun PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE has 1 sense:

1. assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician

  Familiarity information: PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("physician-assisted suicide" is a kind of...):

assisted suicide (suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible)