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    OPHTHALMOLOGIST

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eyeplay

    Synonyms:

    eye doctor; oculist; ophthalmologist

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("ophthalmologist" is a kind of...):

    medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Hermann Snellen; Snellen (Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908))

    Derivation:

    ophthalmology (the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases)

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