CLAUDE BERNARD Synonyms

• a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments

• a licensed medical practitioner

• (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

• children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office

• a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• give medical treatment to

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves

• a medical practitioner in the armed forces

• a biologist specializing in physiology

• a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

• a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

• a scientist who studies disease processes

• French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)