medical specialist
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
:
especialista médico
- My doctor referred me to a medical specialist for my heart condition.
Ologists look, orthopedic doctors look, your GI doctor looks, every other medical specialist look except psychiatrist.
- Ologists look, orthopedic doctors look, your GI doctor looks, every other medical specialist look except psychiatrist.
Examples
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Medical specialists from Italy, Germany, France, and the United States are studying the registered cases of miraculous healing in Medjugorje.
Academic text (1990) -
Although providing medical care to the Cashinahua contributed to my gaining rapport with them, it also created tensions and some hostility from their medical specialists until we established a working relationship wherein I "treated the symptoms" and they "treated the causes."
Academic text (1996) -
I'm gonna get my parents to arrange for us to see a leading medical specialist.
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Consult the top medical specialists, wherever they are.
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And growing shortages of nurses and medical specialists put more strain on broken systems.
Blog text (2) -
Typically, in the more severe cases, multiple opinions are sought from medical specialists, with detailed descriptions of risks and likely outcomes provided to the individual.
Academic text (1990) -
For most of the parents, a high-risk medical specialist with specialized knowledge about multiple births managed the pregnancy.
Academic text (2010) -
The Guarani medical specialists were brought together and given three weeks' instruction in parasitology, basic sanitation, nutrition, and infant rehydration.
Academic text (1996) -
Among the Inca, women were renowned as medical specialists who combined knowledge of the curative properties of plants, offerings to the deities, and divination to cure their patients, both male and female.
Academic text (1999) -
The boy would enter the world on inauspicious terms, deaf and in poor health, requiring a revolving company of medical specialists and caretakers, and involving no shortage of new expenses and responsibilities.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who treats sick or injured people
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7.8
A person who treats sick or injured people
674
3.8
A doctor who finds what is wrong and treats sick or injured people
120
3.9
A doctor who treats one part of the body, like the heart
22
4.5
A health worker who treats patients directly
13
3.5
A doctor qualified to treat patients
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3.7
A person trained to treat sick or injured people, like a doctor
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7.9
A doctor who finds what illness someone has by looking at their symptoms
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8.3
A doctor who treats sick or hurt people
A person who is trained to treat people when they are sick
Antonyms
- Specialized
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2.7
A doctor who treats common illnesses and sends patients to specialists
How Specialized
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4.2
537
3.8
2
3.5
- Specialized
7
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'medical' (relating to medicine) with 'specialist' (a person focusing on a specific field), yielding 'a specialist in medicine.' This modifier + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Medical specialist comes from the idea of a doctor who focuses on one area of medicine: medical means about medicine and a specialist is someone who studies one thing closely. Imagine a doctor who studies the heart only, and you can see why the phrase means 'a doctor with extra training and expert knowledge in one area of medicine'.