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OPHTHALMOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

Synonyms:

eye doctor; oculist; ophthalmologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ophthalmologist" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Instance hyponyms:

Hermann Snellen; Snellen (Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908))

Derivation:

ophthalmology (the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases)

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