medico vs medical practitioner

medico and medical practitioner both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medico	Yes	No	No	No
medical practitioner	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, medical practitioner is a hypernym of medico; that is, medical practitioner is a word with a broader meaning than medico:

Other hypernyms of medico include medical man.

medico (noun)	medical practitioner (noun)
a licensed medical practitioner	someone who practices medicine
a student in medical school