Paradoctor vs. Doctor — What's the Difference?

(rare) A doctor on a pararescue team.

A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.

Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.

A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.

A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.

A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.

Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.

Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.

A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.

(Informal) To give medical treatment to

To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.

To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself

To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of

To alter or modify for a specific end

(Baseball) To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement

To practice medicine.

A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.

A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.

A fish, the friar skate.

A ship's cook.

(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.

To act as a medical doctor.

(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.

(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.

(transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

(transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).

To take medicine.

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

The friar skate.

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

To practice physic.

A licensed medical practitioner;

(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching;

Children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor's office;

A person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution;

Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;

Give medical treatment to

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;