plural of doctorbush

Synonym of Baxter's law

(law) A legal concept where a court finds that portions of a contract are unenforceable, but other portions of the contract are enforceable.

(Canada, law) A doctrine of constitutional interpretation according to which the constitution must be read in a broad and progressive way so as to adapt it to the changing times.

(law) Synonym of fireman's rule

(informal) The jargon used by medical doctors.

(South Africa, obsolete, offensive) Synonym of witch doctor

plural of plague doctor

(European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)