PA vs physician assistant

PA

noun
  • Public accountant. 

  • Power amplifier. 

  • Public Act. 

name
  • Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America 

  • Papua, a province of Indonesia 

  • Pará, a state of Brazil 

  • Palestinian Authority 

  • Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian) 

  • Proto-Athapaskan 

  • Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc) 

physician assistant

noun
  • A health care professional trained and licensed to perform a role similar to that of a physician but with somewhat narrower limits of authority; physician assistants and nurse practitioners have enough capabilities to be physician extenders, providing primary care and allowing physicians to spread their time across more patients. 

How often have the words PA and physician assistant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )