Mongolian gazelle migration Safari over the remote steppe for one of Asiaâs largest remaining wildlife populations. Every year in eastern Mongolia, a million gazelles migrate over grounds that border Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and China.
MD does NOT stand for medical doctor, although that's the common interpretation. MD is a Latin abbreviation, Medicinae Doctor. Its English translation is Doctor of Medicine. Similarly, a PhD stands for Philosophiae Doctor, or Doctor of Philosophy, not Philosophical Doctor. We don't use Latin much anymore, so we assign the letters a reasonable English equivalent medical doctor.
1 There are two types of physicians: M.D. (Medical Doctor) and D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). 2  M.D.s is also known as allopathic physicians. 3  Similarities: 4  D.O.s (just like M.D.s) are licensed to diagnose, treat, prescribe medications, and perform surgery in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.