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Professional vs Iatroculture - What's the difference?

professional | iatroculture |

As nouns the difference between professional and iatroculture

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while iatroculture is the culture of medical professionals.

As an adjective professional

is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

professional

English

Noun

(wikipedia professional) (en noun)
  • A person who belongs to a profession
  • A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • An expert.
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
  • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • (lb) Expert.
  • Derived terms

    * non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessional

    iatroculture

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The culture of medical professionals.
  • References

    * [http://www.academicmedicine.org/pt/re/acmed/abstract.00001888-200404000-00012.htm;jsessionid=HLyKyqRXtGnN61kwTv897LLKv7jhbgQQhvJDxgQGn2bjh1yv7RJ7!391776677!181195629!8091!-1] * [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1831570] * [http://www.kcumb.edu/kcolleges/bio/KCUMB_COB_2005_2006_Catalog071205_1.pdf]