'Doctor fish' definitions:
Definition of 'Doctor fish'
From: GCIDE
- doctor \doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]
- 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. [1913 Webster]
- By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
- Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
- Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'doctor fish'
From: GCIDE
- Surgeon \Sur"geon\, n. [OE. surgien, OF. surgien, contr. fr. chirurgien. See Chirurgeon.]
- 1. One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. [1913 Webster]
- Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. --Dunglison.
- Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist.
- Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above.
- Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department. [1913 Webster]