RHEUMATOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A physician specializing in rheumatic diseases

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Nouns denoting people

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Derivation:

rheumatology (the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints)

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