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extern

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ex·tern or ex·terne  (kstûrn)
n.
A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.
[Latin externus, external; see external.]
extern·ship n.
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Noun1.extern - a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
medical extern
doc, doctor, physician, Dr., MD, medico - a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
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Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, youth.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
An extern school grew round the old almost monastic foundation, which subsists still with its middle-age costume and usages--and all Cistercians pray that it may long flourish.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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