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..
What we need is a mediocre gay art: one that can proudly take a seat of obscurity next to the heterosexual schlock that has lowered cultural standards for centuries and one in which we unwittingly collude every time we worship at its shrine in the name of camp or kitsch.