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Drss. en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, obsolete, rare) Abbreviation of doctress; a title used for a female doctor.
    alt of doctress
    • Drss. Ella R. Swinney of Smyrna, Del., has been appointed medical missionary to Shanghai, China, by the Baptist Board. 1883, in American Observer Medical Monthly, Volume 20, p. 240 (Google Books view)
    • The Cleveland College and Hospital for Women sends us their third announcement. The faculty are: G.H. Blair, on Practice; Drss. Merrick, on Midwifery; Saunders, on Surgery; Brush, Chemistry; Cyriax; Materia Medica; Boynton, Physiology, Pathology and Microscopy; Brown, Anatomy; Chase, Jurisprudence; and Drss. Canfield, Demonstrator 1870, in The United States Medial Investigator. A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 7, p. 614 (Google Books view)
    • Drss. Gœway presents an essay on dysmenorrhœa. 1880, in The Homœopathic News, Volume 9, p. 81 (Google Books view)

Synonyms

Doctrix