gynecologist
nounattested in dialogue
- //ˌɡaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst//
- //ˌd͡ʒaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst//
A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
noun
- 1
A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists.
From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) (genitive form γυναικός) + -λογία (-logía, “branch of study”), itself the combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “word, knowledge, reason”). By surface analysis, gynecology + -ist or gyneco- + -logist.
Forms
- plural
- gynecologists
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