An assistant is an individual who is employed by an actively-licensed veterinarian to perform acts pertaining to the practice of veterinary medicine, and receives compensation for such acts from the employing veterinarian, but is not a Certified Veterinary Technician or licensed veterinarian.
Word History: Belying the very meaning of the word, the adjective mediocre has a remarkable and unexpected etymology. Mediocre ultimately comes from Latin mediocris, which meant middling, ordinary, unremarkable..
early 15c., moderation; intermediate state or amount, from Middle French mÃ©diocritÃ© and directly from Latin mediocritatem (nominative mediocritas) a middle state, middling condition, medium, from mediocris (see mediocre). Neutral at first; disparaging sense began to predominate from late 16c.