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PEDIATRIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pediatrist mean?
• PEDIATRIST (noun)
The noun PEDIATRIST has 1 sense:
1. a specialist in the care of babies
Familiarity information: PEDIATRIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialist in the care of babies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
baby doctor; paediatrician; pediatrician; pediatrist
Hypernyms ("pediatrist" 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:
pediatrics (the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children)
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