staff of Aesculapius

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staff of Aesculapius

n
(Medicine) an emblem consisting of a staff with a serpent entwined round it, used by the Royal Medical Corps and the American Medical Association. Compare caduceus2
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staff′ of Aescula′pius


n.
a representation of a forked staff entwined with a serpent, used as a symbol of the medical profession.
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Throughout his latest collection, Einstein's Beach House (2014), Appel's characters tend to wear some of the author's own and very diverse professional hats: there's the ex-attorney in the superb "La Tristresse des Herissons," the superior court judge in "Limerence," a real and a fake doctor in "The Rod of Asclepius," a stern public health officer in "Paracosmos," and a failed linguist in the collection's titular story.
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