Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

house officer

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English

Syllables: house- of-fi-cer
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.

Example Sentences

"The house officer may be intimidated by the broad range of choices of inotropic and vasoconstrictive agents at his disposal. It behooves the house officer to become familiar with a small number of drugs representing the various categories of effect and mechanism."
"Throughout her penultimate and final years of medical school, she’d been consumed with visions of herself as a house officer. Taking delivery, scrubbing in for surgery, clerking a patient and drawing up an impeccable treatment plan."

Inflected Forms

house officers (plural)

Questions

What does house officer mean?: A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.

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