"Doctor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiān sheng teacher / husband / doctor (dialect) / CL:位[wei4] / Mister (Mr.)
 yī shēng doctor / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
 bó shì doctor / court academician (in feudal China) / Ph.D.
 dài fu doctor / physician
 yī shī doctor
 láng zhōng doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
 yī medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
 yī jiā healer / physician / medical man / doctor (esp. of TCM)
 Zhōng yī traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
 zhí yè to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
 kàn bìng to visit a doctor / to see a patient
 bó shì xué wèi doctoral degree / PhD / same as Doctor of Philosophy 哲學博士學位|哲学博士学位
 jūn yī military doctor
 jiù zhěn to see a doctor / to seek medical advice
 míng yī famous doctor
西 zhōng xī yī Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
西 xī yī Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
 qiú yī to seek medical treatment / to see a doctor
 jí zhěn to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department, or from a doctor on a house call)
 shèng shǒu divine physician / sage doctor / highly skilled practitioner
 Huà Tuó Hua Tuo (?-208), famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty
访 suí fǎng to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)
 Bái Qiú ēn Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
 wū yī witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
 liáng yī good doctor / skilled doctor
 fù zhěn another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
 miào shǒu huí chūn magical hands bring the dying back to life (idiom) / miracle cure / brilliant doctor
 dà bǔ tiě tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software
 Sūn Sī miǎo Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方[Qian1 jin1 Yao4 fang1]
 hòu zhěn waiting to see a doctor / awaiting treatment
 chì jiǎo yī shēng barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
 bìng jí luàn tóu yī lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom) / fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
 jiǔ bìng chéng yī (proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
 xìng lín forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉[Dong3 Feng4], 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
 wén xué bó shì Doctor of Letters
 yī xué bó shì doctor of medicine
 nèi kē yī shēng medical doctor / physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生[wai4 ke1 yi1 sheng1]
 míng yù bó shì honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
 míng yù bó shì xué wèi honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
 Zhōu Yī yuè York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
 Méi sī méi ěr Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
 róng yù bó shì honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
 róng yù bó shì xué wèi honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
 Jiāng hú yī shēng quack / charlatan / itinerant doctor and swindler
 fǎ xué bó shì Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
 bǎi shèng nán lu:4 dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liu2 Yu3 xi1]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
 jiǎo xíng yī shēng orthopedic doctor
 Dǒng Fèng Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
 Gé lán shì Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
 jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
 yī guān official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
 xiāng cūn yī shēng village doctor (Chinese health care system)
 guī péi (of a medical graduate) to undertake standardized training (as a resident doctor in a hospital) (abbr. for 規範化培訓|规范化培训[gui1 fan4 hua4 pei2 xun4])
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