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OTOLOGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does otologist mean?
• OTOLOGIST (noun)
The noun OTOLOGIST has 1 sense:
1. a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases
Familiarity information: OTOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ear doctor; ear specialist; otologist
Hypernyms ("otologist" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Instance hyponyms:
Meniere; Prosper Meniere (French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862))
Derivation:
otology (the branch of medicine concerned with the ear)
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