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cardiologist

cardiologist

47 4.4
A doctor who treats problems of the heart
  • noun
  • /ˌkɑrdiˈɑlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cardiólogo
  • After her heart surgery, she was referred to a cardiologist for follow-up care.
  • surgeons and cardiologists
  • cardiac surgeons and cardiologists
  • a cardiologist developed

But my friend who's a cardiologist and award-winning.

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Examples

  • Call the cardiologist.

  • In addition, a detailed medical history and physical examination were conducted by a cardiologist for each participant.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Soon, the special doctor, the cardiologist, called us into his office.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I need to call a cardiologist.

  • Luckily, I have a cardiologist in the family.

  • Ideally, one should not have to choose a cardiologist until one has a heart problem.

    Blog text (23)
  • She's going to need a cardiologist right away.

  • Ron's a cardiologist at my hospital.

  • I already know she's going to send me to a cardiologist to see what they say.

    Blog text (31)
  • The encouragement and support of family doctors and local cardiologists will therefore be important in the clinical assessment of relatives.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

cardio
vscardiologist
  • Jargon
9 5.4

A doctor or hospital department that treats heart problems

means the trained heart doctor rather than informal name or a department
heart specialist
vscardiologist
2 3.0

A doctor who finds and treats heart problems

is the formal medical term for that specialist

How Specialized

cardiologist
  • Specialized
47 4.4
physician
  • Specialized
674 3.8
general practitioner
  • Specialized
7 2.7

Surface Forms

cardiologist singular
cardiologists plural

Morphology

cardiologist = cardiology (transparent) = cardio + log + ist

Built regularly from the base word 'cardiology' with the suffix '-ist', so the meaning 'specialist in heart medicine' is directly compositional.

Etymology

Cardiologist comes from the Greek root kardia meaning 'heart' and the ending -logist meaning 'person who studies', like in biologist, so a cardiologist is a doctor who studies and treats the heart.