Definition of Extern

1. Noun. A nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there.

Exact synonyms: Medical Extern
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician

Definition of Extern

1. a. External; outward; not inherent.

2. n. A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

Definition of Extern

1. Noun. A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate. ¹

2. Noun. Outward form or part; exterior. ¹

3. Adjective. (obsolete rare) External. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extern

1. a nonresident of an institution [n -S]

Medical Definition of Extern

1. An advanced student or recent graduate who assists in the medical or surgical care of hospital patients; formerly, one who lived outside of the institution. Origin: F. Externe, outside, a day scholar (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extern

extermination camp
extermination camps
exterminationism
exterminationist
exterminationists
exterminations
exterminator
exterminators
exterminatory
exterminatress
exterminatrix
extermine
extermined
extermines
extermining
extern (current term)
external
external-combustion engine
external absorption
external acoustic foramen
external acoustic meatus
external acoustic pore
external anal sphincter
external angle
external aperture of cochlear canaliculus
external aperture of vestibular aqueduct
external arcuate fibres
external artery of nose
external auditory canal
external auditory foramen

Literary usage of Extern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... extern, on Commem.so/Thomson. Ease frae toil, relief frac care : . 6". Frac the friends t Her faithfu' mate will share her toil, ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, outlier, nonmember, extern, exoteric; see FOREIGNER. outstrip, rt pass (contextual); spec, distance, outdistance (emphatic for "distance"), ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In other countries the Loretto nuns invariably work up to the requisite standard fixed by the extern educational authorities. (See INSTITUTE OF MARY. ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1902)
"We applied it ut the last term of this court at Jackson in the case of ]\ extern U. Teleg. .... extern ..."

5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"formation respecting this Oxford celebrity, and Mr. Friend (who is about to remove to the neighbourhood of Oxford) may find the means to extern] his ..."

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