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staves
noun(staff)
the doctors and surgeons regularly attached to a hospital and helping to determine its policies and guide its activities
staves
noun(staff)
a conventionalized representation of a staff branched at the top with a single snake twined around it that is used as a symbol of medicine and as the official insignia of the American Medical Association —called also rod of Asclepius, rod of Aesculapius

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