Definition of "medical officer" []

• A medical practitioner in the armed forces (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Hoot flies for Southwest Airlines and Rhea is the assistant chief medical officer at Vanderbilt Medical Group at that Nashville university."
• "The former chief medical officer of the original U.S.S. Enterprise represented the same history as the ship approaching Space-Dock, and Ross felt it more than appropriate that he should be here on this day."
• "Dr. Elizabeth Lense served as chief medical officer of the Lexington before being assigned to the U.S.S. da Vinci The Belly of the Beast."