HEALERS Synonyms

• a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

• a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

• a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult

• a clergyman ministering to some institution

• 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

• someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)

• a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)

• a skilled worker who mends or repairs things

• synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction

• a therapist who heals by the use of herbs

• 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

• 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 licensed medical practitioner

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

• someone who practices a learned profession

• a physician who specializes in surgery

• act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• set straight or right

• provide relief for