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physician extender

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

Syllables
physi-cian ex-ten-der
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who extends a physician's oversight to a larger patient population than would otherwise be reasonable (by relieving the physician of much of the work done for, and time spent with, each patient); physician assistants and nurse practitioners can both provide this extension.

Inflected Forms

physician extenders (plural)

Questions

What does physician extender mean?
A person who extends a physician's oversight to a larger patient population than would otherwise be reasonable (by relieving the physician of much of the work done for, and time spent with, each patient); physician assistants and nurse practitioners can both provide this extension.

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