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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
general practitioner
▪ A small number of patients were not contacted further on the advice of their general practitioner, usually because of concurrent malignant disease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
General practitioner









    His general behavior vain, ridiculous.




    General assembly. See the Note under Assembly.

    General average, General Court. See under Average, Court.




    General epistle, a canonical epistle.










    General verdict (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, ``for the plaintiff'' or ``for the defendant''.


    Syn: Syn. General, Common, Universal.


General practitioner

Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician.]


  2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.

  3. A sly or artful person.

    General practitioner. See under General, 2.

general practitioner

n. A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.

general practitioner

n. a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses [syn: GP]

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Usage examples of "general practitioner".

Lucy knew that Cymbalist was a general practitioner, though not on Three Counties’.

Ninety per cent of the general practitioner's job is trying to decide if an old lady's pain is heart trouble or wind, or whether a kiddy's got scarlet fever or a sore throat.

Hawkeye figured, finally, that he needed one busy general practitioner to feed him.


But what I contend against is the way medical men are fouling their own nest, and setting up a cry about the country as if a general practitioner who dispenses drugs couldn't be a gentleman.

Mild cases of lead poisoning are difficult for the average general practitioner to diagnose, since you may just feel run down, but even at an early stage you may start to get chromosomal abnormalities.

How could he send his boy on through college on what a general practitioner could earn in a dying city.

In a long career as a General Practitioner he had never been faced by such a beautiful woman who did not know that there was more to marriage than kissing and cuddling.

Why has an inspector, of all people, trotted along here so promptly on hearing of the regrettable, but perfectly natural, collapse and death of a respected general practitioner?

The general practitioner who attended Tolkien during his visits to (and, later, residence in) Bournemouth.

Rees Ralph Llewellyn, the nearest general practitioner, then told Mizen to secure an ambulance, which in those days meant a two-wheeled wagon long enough to hold a stretcher.

But usually it is in that realm where mind and body mingle -- where the mind affects the body and the body the mind, and where untangling the relationship is the Devil's own work, and takes time and application and sympathy -- that the hard-driven general practitioner and his specialist brother cannot be expected to provide for every patient who knocks on his door.

Tasha, I don't know the special mysteries of the powers of air 51 am a general practitioner.

Had she ever told anybody about old Doc Puckett, the general practitioner in a small town?