robodoc

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noun

A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounrobodoc (plural robodocs)

plural robodocs

  1. literatureA robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.

    Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.

    2013, Gary Caplan, The Phoenix Rising
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    Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous.

    2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos, page 64
  2. A telesurgeon.

    Residency training of physicians thus dwindles to the production of a new breed of "robotized" physicians — robodocs — that practice exclusively rule-based reasoning with the help of a digital computer and invisible experts.

    2005, Vladimir B. Bajić, Tin Wee Tan, Information Processing and Living Systems, page 471

Origin

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APA

robodoc. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/robodoc

MLA

“robodoc.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/robodoc. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “robodoc,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/robodoc.

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