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ORTHOPTIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orthoptist mean?
• ORTHOPTIST (noun)
The noun ORTHOPTIST has 1 sense:
1. a specialist in orthoptics
Familiarity information: ORTHOPTIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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