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.
Diffen âº Professions âº Medical Professions. DDS stands for Doctor of Dental Surgery and DMD stands for Dentariae Medicinae Doctorae, which is Latin for Doctor of Dental Medicine. There is no difference between the two degrees.