Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who practices veterinary medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises the art of treating disease and injuries in domestic animals, surgically or medically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in the treatment of diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon. Often abbreviated to
vet .
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- noun A
medical doctor whotreats non-humananimals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Horrified, she calls the veterinarian and asks what to do.
Omri Marcus: The Middle East and the Dead Dog in the Living Room Omri Marcus 2011
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I called our veterinarian and made an appointment to bring the kittens in and get their eyes checked.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008
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I called our veterinarian and made an appointment to bring the kittens in and get their eyes checked.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008
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Our regular veterinarian is an avid pro-lifer and refuses to spay or neuter his patients!
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I called our veterinarian and made an appointment to bring the kittens in and get their eyes checked.
Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart Kay Allenbaugh 1999
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I called our veterinarian and made an appointment to bring the kittens in and get their eyes checked.
Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart Kay Allenbaugh 1999
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"We called our veterinarian team in and they worked intensively over the next 24 hours to try and save her, but unfortunately she succumbed to a toxic infection."
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She called the veterinarian listed on the rabies tag, reading to the person who answered both the dog's name, Kenzy, and the tag number.
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When Myrick's other goat, Maya, went into labor Sunday morning, she called a veterinarian who specializes in livestock, but he was out of the county on another emergency call.
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When Myrick's other goat, Maya, went into labor Sunday morning, she called a veterinarian who specializes in livestock, but he was out of the county on another emergency call.
trivet commented on the word veterinarian
The Vet's Wife's Refrigerator
By Baxter Black, DVM
A scream from the kitchen. The thud of a faint.
She sighs and arises and walks with restraint.
Her neighbor lays peaceful, eyes fixed in a stare
She’s passed out in front of the new Frigidaire.
She looks at the rack with eggs in its keep
Winking up at her’s the eye of a sheep.
There’s a bottle of PenStrep near the Swanson’s Pot Pies
And down in the crisper’s a bagful of flies.
The butter tray’s filled with test tubes of blood
Marked, “E.I.A. samples, from Tucker’s old stud.�?
High on the shelf near a platter of cheese
Is a knotted, but leaking, obscene plastic sleeve.
Fecal containers are stacked, side by side,
With yesterday’s piece of chicken, home fried.
The freezer’s a dither of guts, lungs and spleens
Scattered amongst the Bird's-Eye green beans.
Her home’s a museum of animal parts.
Lymphomatous lymph nodes, selenium hearts.
Enough tissue samples to hold up a bridge
But why do they always end up in the fridge?
But she doesn’t worry or turn up her nose,
She’s the wife of a vet, it’s the life that she chose.
But maybe he’d worry at lunch if he knew
He might just be dining on Whirl-Pack stew!
March 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word veterinarian
Ha! Great poem.
This word is also what I wanted to be when I was a kid. Actually I wanted to be an animal doctor, not a word.
Real doctors treat more than one species. :)
March 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word veterinarian
My daughter wants to be an animal doctor, too (not a vet). Totally agree re: real doctors - and where does that leave dentists??
March 19, 2008