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Romana → Serials → K9 → TARDIS → Doctors → Characters with one name → Character names → Honourifics → Magazine issues → Years → Eras → Human → Parts of a series without clear individual titles → The Monk → Dates → Astronomical objects → Lists of appearances → Universe → K9/Background → Integers → Fandom names → Speedy renames → Humanoid |
Our research has shown that the word "near-human", so popular in other science fiction franchises, practically doesn't exist in the Doctor Who universe. Thus, anybody who basically looks human, but isn't human — people like Nyssa, Adric, Turlough and even the Doctor — are from humanoid species.
In a few rare instances, people who look human, but aren't, may be called human-ish, but this is usually a derogatory term, meant to imply that the character believes in some form of subhumanity.
Note that humanoid also means any species that has a vaguely human, bipedal look. So Silurians, for instance, are sometimes called "humanoid reptiles".