ORTHOPTIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A specialist in orthoptics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Derivation:

orthoptics (treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles))

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