Medicus is Latin for

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

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Dieter Medicus Dieter Medicus (9 May 1929 – 6 June 2015) was a German jurist. Until his retirement in 1994 he was professor of Private Law and history of Ancient law at the University of Munich. Life Medicus was born 1929 in Berlin. His father was a chemist ...

(1929–2015), German jurist *

Dieter Medicus (ice hockey) Dieter Medicus (born 7 April 1957) is a German ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 57 , athletes = 1,423 (1,122 men, 301 women) , events = 46 in 6 sports (10 discipli ...

(born 1957), German ice hockey player *

Friedrich Kasimir Medikus Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (or Friedrich Casimir Medicus; 6 January 1738 – 8 July 1808) was a German physician and botanist. He was born at Grumbach and became director of the University of Mannheim (Theodoro Palatinae Mannheim) and curator of ...

(1738–1808), German physician and botanist *

Fritz Medicus Fritz Medicus (April 23, 1876 – January 13, 1956) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, ''Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry''. H ...

(1876–1956), German-Swiss philosopher *

Henry Medicus Henry W. Medicus (January 29, 1865''New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' – May 13, 1941) was a wealthy American furniture dealer in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1900s. He became a part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in 1905 whe ...

(1865–1941), part-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers from 1905 to 1912 *

Medicus Long Medicus A. Long (died September 22, 1885) was a lawyer from Tennessee who served one term in Tennessee's General Assembly. He spent a short time as a publisher in Tennessee. He married Ellen Call, Florida Territorial Governor Richard K. Call's d ...

(died 1885), American lawyer and politician

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* ''Medicus'' (journal), a journal edited by students of the

Yerevan State Medical University The Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU, hy, Երեվանի Մխիթար Հերացու անվան Պետական Բժշկական Համալսարան), is an Armenian medical school, medical university located in Yerevan, Arme ...

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The Physician ''The Physician'' is a novel by Noah Gordon. It is about the life of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine among the Persians. The book was initially published by Simon & Schuster ...

'' a.k.a. ''Medicus'', a novel by Noah Gordon * ''Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls'', published in the United States as ''Medicus'', a novel by

Ruth Downie Ruth Downie (born 18 April 1955, North Devon, United Kingdom) is a British author. She is best known for her mysteries featuring the “reluctant sleuth”, Gaius Petreius Ruso, that are set in the Roman world The culture of ancient Rome ex ...

* Medicus, several physicians in the television series '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' and its sequels

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