Definition of "medico"

medico

noun
plural medicos
1. (informal) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
  Quotations
  She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.
  1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV
  He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
  1929 April 8, Time
  "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."
  2009 January 22, Christian Nicolussi, Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun‎, archived from the original on 22 January 2009