Usually means: Symbolic staff; two snakes, wings.
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  1. caduceus: Merriam-Webster
  2. caduceus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caduceus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caduceus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caduceus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caduceus, caduceus: Wordnik
  7. caduceus: Wiktionary
  8. caduceus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caduceus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. caduceus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. caduceus: Dictionary.com
  12. caduceus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. CADUCEUS (expert system), Caduceus (disambiguation), Caduceus (horse), Caduceus (ship), Caduceus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Caduceus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. caduceus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. caduceus: Rhymezone
  17. Caduceus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. caduceus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Caduceus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. caduceus: FreeDictionary.org
  21. caduceus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. caduceus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caduceus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caduceus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. caduceus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Caduceus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. caduceus: Medical dictionary
  6. Caduceus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Caduceus, Caduceus, Caduceus: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. caduceus, caduceus: A Word A Day
  3. caduceus: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See caducei as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (caduceus)

noun:  The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
noun:  A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.

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