Library / English Dictionary

PAEDIATRICIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in the care of babies

Synonyms:

baby doctor; paediatrician; pediatrician; pediatrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Instance hyponyms:

Harold Hirschsprung; Hirschsprung (Danish pediatrician (1830-1916))

Benjamin Spock; Spock (United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world (1903-1998))

Derivation:

paediatrics (the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children)

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