{
    "term": "physician",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a doctor, especially one who is a specialist in general medicine and not surgery",
            "labels": "British English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Dr Dennett is a practicing family physician in Atlanta."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please consult your physician before beginning any new exercise program."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He became the President's personal physician."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was physician to George Washington."
                },
                {
                    "text": "physician to the Duke of Albemarle"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["family", "general", "hospital"],
                "preposition": ["physician to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɪˈzɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ph/physician/physician__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɪˈzɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ph/physician/physician__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French fisicien, based on Latin physica ‘things relating to nature’, from Greek phusikē (epistēmē) ‘(knowledge) of nature’."
}