A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine, chiropractic, optometry, podiatry, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, Same as doctor-fish, A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials, intransitive verb_ To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig, To alter or modify for a specific end, To practice medicine, transitive verb_ To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor, Slang To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate

A person with an advanced degree licensed to practice in a medical field, such as a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, a licensed medical practitioner, A colloquial form of doctor, as a title of address

Plural form of practitioner

someone who practices a learned profession, A person who practices a profession or art, One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine