specialist
120
3.9
- noun
- /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
:
médico especialista
- Her father, a prominent heart specialist, suddenly died of a heart attack.
- medical specialist
- a specialist team
- assessment by a specialist
Haven't heard anything from the, from the mole specialist people in America, I think.
- Haven't heard anything from the, from the mole specialist people in America, I think.
- Very clever, clever audiology or not a heart specialist.
- And we think in this country patients should be able to see specialists who can provide the care that they need.
- You know, I had some of the leading back specialists in Los Angeles telling me that there was a problem in my body and there wasn't.
- So he went to the specialist, he examined me and he asked my father to get my X-ray off my chest.
- Like right now I go to a cancer specialist who's kind of overseas, all of this nonsense because now it's long, it's ortho, whatever.
- It's been on a near monthly basis that a Parkinson's specialist has been visiting the White House and the team that takes care of President Biden.
- If you what you might want to do by the end of this bit is get in touch with a sort of side specialist doctor because you're going to split them laughing.
Examples
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Today we're going to speak to Doctor Greg Potter, who is a PhD graduate from the University of Leeds and a specialist in sleep.
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I think you should see a heart specialist to have that pain of yours checked out.
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And instead I went to see a specialist that I had seen before and they told me the same thing.
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I met with a specialist who said...
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- Have you been to see a fertility specialist?
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He needs to see a specialist right away.
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She's a mental health specialist.
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She has an appointment tomorrow in L.A. with another specialist.
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Now look, there's nothing wrong with actually going to a specialist who will have an inch wide and a mile deep expertise in an area.
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Our family doctor referred me to a specialist at the hospital for further tests.
Synonyms
783
3.2
A doctor who performs operations to treat injuries or illnesses
95
3.7
A doctor who cares for babies and children
16
6.8
A doctor who diagnoses and treats adults' illnesses without surgery
4
7.9
A doctor who finds what illness someone has by looking at their symptoms
2
3.5
A doctor with extra training in one part of medicine
2
3.0
A doctor who finds and treats heart problems
1
7.6
A person with extra training in a very small part of a field, often medicine
1
3.5
A doctor who treats ear problems and checks hearing
A doctor who studies what causes diseases
Antonyms
- Specialized
7
2.7
A doctor who treats common illnesses and sends patients to specialists
Compounds
- Specialized
1
4.5
A person who finds and compares marks left by fingers to help the police
How Specialized
- Specialized
1
7.6
537
3.8
120
3.9
- Specialized
7
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word specialist comes from special which means 'particular' and the ending -ist which means 'a person who does something'. So a specialist is someone who focuses on one particular part of medicine, for example a doctor who only treats hearts.