Monday Word: Iatric

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iatric [ahy-a-trik, ee-a-trik]

adjective
1. of or relating to a physician or medicine; medical

origins
1850–55; < Greek iātrikós of healing, equivalent to iātr ( ós ) healer ( iatro- ) + -ikos -ic

examples
1. My husband laughed in his unkind iatric way at a friend of mine who had said, `If anything should happen to me. . . . ' June 17, 2000 Spectator

2. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana specifically permit iatric euthanasia. Kevorkian: The Right to Die and Other 9th Amendment Freedoms 2009

3. 'You have an exorbitant auditory impediment,' replied the doctor, ever conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that 'a pea in the ear 'was unlikely to earn him any kudos. Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis, 2003

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