Medical Dictionary
3associate
noun as·so·ciate \like2\
Medical Definition of ASSOCIATE
1
: a research worker or teacher affiliated with a professional organization or institution and ranking below a professor or full member <a research associate in pathology>
2
often capitalized : a degree conferred especially by a junior college <an Associate in Technical Arts degree in nursing—Skagit Valley College Catalog>
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