dermatologist

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English

Etymology

From dermatology +‎ -ist or dermato- +‎ -logist.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɜːməˈtɒlədʒɪst/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌdɝ.məˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

Noun

dermatologist (plural dermatologists)

  1. A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology.
    • 1997, Nather Abdul Aziz, Phillips Glyn O, Strong D Michael, Advances In Tissue Banking - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 171:
      We have offered our products to our own burn surgeons and to other specialists of our and other hospitals, namely dermatologists, plasticians and specialists for long-term illnesses.
    • 2006, various authors, A Psychiatric Milestone, The Echo Library, →ISBN, page 29:
      From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.

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