2006 Kansas Code - 65-2802

      65-2802.   Definitions. For the purpose of this act the following definitions shall apply:

      (a)   The healing arts include any system, treatment, operation, diagnosis, prescription, or practice for the ascertainment, cure, relief, palliation, adjustment, or correction of any human disease, ailment, deformity, or injury, and includes specifically but not by way of limitation the practice of medicine and surgery; the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery; and the practice of chiropractic.

      (b)   "Board" shall mean the state board of healing arts.

      (c)   "License" shall mean a license to practice the healing arts granted under this act.

      (d)   "Licensed" or "licensee" shall mean a person licensed under this act to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery or chiropractic.

      (e)   Wherever the masculine gender is used it shall be construed to include the feminine, and the singular number shall include the plural when consistent with the intent of this act.

      History:   L. 1957, ch. 343, § 2; L. 1976, ch. 273, § 1; Feb. 13.