Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who practices veterinary medicine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who practises the art of treating disease and injuries in domestic animals, surgically or medically.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One skilled in the treatment of diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon. Often abbreviated to
vet .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
Etymologies
- From Latin veterinarius ("farrier", "cattle doctor", "veterinarian"), from veterinum ("beast of burden"), from vehiterinum, from veho ("to bear", "to carry") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Horrified, she calls the veterinarian and asks what to do.”
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“Our regular veterinarian is an avid pro-lifer and refuses to spay or neuter his patients!”
“I called our veterinarian and made an appointment to bring the kittens in and get their eyes checked.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Many horse owners have had the above scenario happen to them and the same question races through their mind as they call their veterinarian: What do I do until the veterinarian arrives, what caused my horse to colic, and will my horse survive?”
“I called my veterinarian and found out they wanted $135 to put him down, so I called the other small animal vets in the area to find about their fees, one was $90, one was $143 and the other was”
“It's unclear why he didn't call a veterinarian, which is usual in these cases.”
““It is important to characterize this because it appears to be a new syndrome, and we don’t truly know how many people may be affected throughout the U.S. or even the world,” said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, a veterinarian from the disease centers.”
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Tweets
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yarb My daughter wants to be an animal doctor, too (not a vet). Totally agree re: real doctors - and where does that leave dentists?? Mar 19, 2008
chained_bear 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. :) Mar 19, 2008
trivet 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! Mar 18, 2008