otologist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From oto- + -logist, after otology.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
otologist (plural otologists)
- A doctor specializing in otology. [from 19th c.]
- 2007 September 4, Jamie Talan, “Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success”, in New York Times[1]:
- “We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
- 2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review:
- Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
doctor specializing in otology
Further reading[edit]
- “otologist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.