children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries |
a licensed medical practitioner | punishment for one's actions |
a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
| the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |