HEALER Synonyms

• a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person)

• an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily

• a therapist who practices chiropractic

• 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

• a therapist who heals by the use of herbs

• a practitioner of homeopathy

• a female massager

• 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 skilled worker who mends or repairs things

• a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

• a therapist who practices naturopathy

• one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)

• a woman who is the custodian of children

• try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury

• maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

• serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people

• treat carefully

• give suck to

• a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles

• a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment

• a licensed medical practitioner

• therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder

• someone who practices a learned profession

• in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination

• a physician who specializes in surgery