title: [Carabin].
abstract: The French word Carabin, meaning today a medicine student, has has various origins in course of time: a valueless person, a mute and assistant-surgeon, a carbine armed horseman and finaly a military medicine student but it is since the long stay in Strasbourg of those students that carabin became synonymous with medicine student.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D009626:Terminology as Topic