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heart specialist

heart specialist

2 3.0
A doctor who finds and treats heart problems
  • noun
  • /hɑrt ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
translation icon : cardiólogo
  • My father is a heart specialist who helps patients with heart conditions.
  • see a heart specialist
  • two heart specialists

Now, This is why, This is why I actually like my doctor, because he is a heart specialist.

Examples

  • l don't know, maybe he's a heart specialist.

  • Her father, a prominent heart specialist, suddenly died of a heart attack.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • My father is a heart specialist.

  • I think you should see a heart specialist to have that pain of yours checked out.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Wills, I met with a heart specialist.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • But I'm an orthopedist, not a heart specialist.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Contact any heart specialist and they will tell you that birdshot cannot travel through the skin and to the heart at 30 yards with heavy hunting clothes.

    Blog text (25)
  • Dr. Carlo Antonelli, one of the top heart specialists in Rome... ...arrived at the Vatican this afternoon.

  • He's a heart specialist.

  • But in today's market, when you choose your insurer, you are at the same time choosing your heart specialist and your cancer specialist, whether you are aware of it or not.

    Blog text (23)

Synonyms

cardiologist
vsheart specialist
  • Specialized
47 4.4

A doctor who treats problems of the heart

is a general, nontechnical phrase for the same medical role
cardio
vsheart specialist
  • Jargon
9 5.4

A doctor or hospital department that treats heart problems

is the formal, specific term for a doctor rather than a department

How Specialized

heart surgeon
12 3.3
heart specialist
2 3.0
physician
  • Specialized
674 3.8
general practitioner
  • Specialized
7 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

heart + specialist

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'heart' (the organ) with 'specialist' (a physician focused on a field): together they denote a doctor who specializes in heart-related diseases. This is a regular noun + noun compounding pattern common in English and many other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.

Etymology

Heart specialist comes from a simple image: a doctor who cares for the heart like a mechanic cares for an engine and only treats that part. So heart specialist means 'a doctor who finds and treats diseases of the heart'.