oncologist
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- noun
- /ɑnˈkɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- Doctor Jeffrey Long was an oncologist who read that jam article.
- a medical oncologist
- a radiation oncologist
- see an oncologist
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Watch on YouTubeIt's just silly if you went to an oncologist and said, hey, what's this lump?
- It's just silly if you went to an oncologist and said, hey, what's this lump?
- I think then it's fair to go to the oncologist and say I've obviously I'm running out of options.
- Your master's thesis was on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana versus oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients.
- You know, we had walked in to the the oncologist's office bargaining.
- Doctor Jeffrey Long was an oncologist who read that jam article.
Examples
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They referred me to an oncologist, when they couldn't make out why my back wasn't mending.
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I can give you the names of some excellent oncologists.
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I called his oncologist and I said, have you seen this research?
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Unless you became an oncologist since we last spoke, you got time.
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So I'll go back to the oncologist next Tuesday.
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Oh, my oncologist is in Denver, so I do the routine stuff here.
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And our main oncologist came in and said we've got some bad news.
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I have some very good oncologist friends at Sloan-Kettering.
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He was a brilliant oncologist.
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I went to see a new oncologist this morning to get a second opinion.
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
oncologist = oncology (semi-transparent) = onco + log + ist
The word is formed from the specialized base 'oncology' plus '-ist', but its meaning is still domain-specific rather than fully predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Oncologist comes from the Greek root onkos, which means 'mass' or 'tumor', and the ending -logist, which means 'a specialist' like in biologist. So an oncologist is a doctor who studies and treats tumors.