Medicus is Latin for

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

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* Dieter Medicus (1929–2015), German jurist * Dieter Medicus (ice hockey) (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 t ...

(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''. He ...

(1876–1956), German-Swiss philosopher * Henry Medicus (1865–1941), part-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers from 1905 to 1912 * Medicus Long (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, ), is an Armenian medical school, medical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. History On 31 January 1920, during the First Republic of Armenia, the Yerevan State University, People's ...

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

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