aesculapian staff
Noun. (medicine) A symbol of the medical profession, consisting of a branched staff with a single snake twined around it.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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