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noun- In Russia, a person with practical training in medicine and surgery, but without professional medical qualifications; a physician's or surgeon's assistant; a local medical auxiliary.

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  • But after one year of studies she transferred to a feldsher track (a medical or surgical practitioner without full professional qualifications) and after graduating...
  • This first interview with the feldsher was, on the whole, satisfactory.
  • I shall dismiss my feldsher, close the barracks, and if the cholera comes, I shall cut rather a comic figure.
  • The znakharka and the feldsher represent two very different periods in the history of medical science -- the magical and the scientific.
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