医
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medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat
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How to remember it
physician · Heisig RSH #1298
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 医
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 医生 | doctor; medical practitioner | |
| 医院 | hospital; CL:所[suo3],家[jia1],座[zuo4] | |
| 医学中心 | medical center | |
| 分子医学 | molecular medicine | |
| 生物医学工程 | biomedical engineering | |
| 医科大学 | university of medicine | |
| 无国界医生 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity); Doctors Without Borders | |
| 中西医结合 | to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine | |
| 广州中医药大学 | Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine | |
| 中医学 | traditional Chinese medicine; TCM | |
| 眼科医生 | ophthalmologist; eye doctor | |
| 医学家 | medical scientist | |
| 外科医生 | surgeon; as opposed to physician 內科醫生|内科医生[nei4 ke1 yi1 sheng1], who works primarily by ad… | |
| 中西医 | Chinese and Western medicine; a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine | |
| 精神科医生 | psychiatrist | |
| 法医学 | forensic medicine | |
| 死马当活马医 | lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom); fig. to keep trying everything in a despera… | |
| 医之好治不病以为功 | doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's… | |
| 全科医生 | general practitioner | |
| 内科医生 | medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeo… |