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Vet

noun

A doctor who practices veterinary medicine. Synonyms: veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon.

A person who has served in the armed forces. Synonyms: ex-serviceman, veteran.

verb

Work as a veterinarian.

Examine carefully.

Provide (a person) with medical care.

Provide veterinary care for.

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... extending almost to the foremen magnum. Bontius asserts that the patient was perfectly cured by another surgeon and himself. Galen mentions an injury to a youth in Smyrna, in whom the brain was so seriously wounded that the anterior ventricles were opened; and vet the patient recovered. Glandorp mentions a case of fracture of the skull out of which his father took large portions of brain and some fragments of bone. He adds that the man was afterward paralyzed an the opposite side and became singularly irritable. In his "Chirurgical Observations," ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... had a fit yesterday, and my brother got the vet'nary doctor. When he came, he said Carlo hadn't any fit. He was acting just awful. I said 'what makes him tare round so?' an he said maybe I'd tare round sum if I had a fish-bone in my throat! The doctor took it out, and then Carlo was so glad ...

— Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains • Amy Brooks

... to do as he chose with the redecoration of the room. But suppose, as he sincerely and devoutly hoped, it wasn't? Dilemma on dilemma. Added to all this, Goliath, the miniature Belgian griffon, having probably overeaten himself, had complicated pains inside, and the callous vet. could or would not come round till the evening. In the meantime, Goliath ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... of battle the medicine chest of a vet., who jotted down his impressions from minute to minute. When he was killed he was writing: "I see the shells bursting with a white smoke in the sky, which is lighted up from the south; luckily my helmet protects me from sunstroke." Evidently he was on an excursion, this veterinary ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... great aid to human progress. Organization is man's orderly way of following the Divine Plan for his economic salvation vet the far mer has profited less by organization than trades unions. Where farmers have organized to aid each other to buy and sell, they have gained wonderfully, but a beginning in this direction has but served to show how much more ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

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