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also pediatrist
as in doctor
a medical professional who treats babies and children
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Recent Examples of pediatrician
If her kids’ pediatrician still refuses, Amanda is planning on leaving the practice and finding a doctor who will.
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Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Your high school or college may still have your records, and so might your pediatrician’s office.
—Daniel Pastula, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
As Repayment System Buckles In less visible roles, Max Greenfield as Lev Levenson, Isla’s pediatrician fiancé, is virtually unrecognizable from his stint as goofy Dave Johnson on veteran CBS sitcom The Neighborhood.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
According to Rebecca Fisk, MD, pediatrician at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, vitamin A taken in excessive quantities can lead to toxicity, causing the following symptoms:8
dizziness
nausea
diarrhea
headache
bone pain
bone thinning
skin irritations/rashes
liver damage
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—Wendy Wisner, Parents, 11 Mar. 2025
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Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Your high school or college may still have your records, and so might your pediatrician’s office.
—Daniel Pastula, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
As Repayment System Buckles In less visible roles, Max Greenfield as Lev Levenson, Isla’s pediatrician fiancé, is virtually unrecognizable from his stint as goofy Dave Johnson on veteran CBS sitcom The Neighborhood.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
According to Rebecca Fisk, MD, pediatrician at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, vitamin A taken in excessive quantities can lead to toxicity, causing the following symptoms:8
dizziness
nausea
diarrhea
headache
bone pain
bone thinning
skin irritations/rashes
liver damage
Was this page helpful?
—Wendy Wisner, Parents, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pediatrician
Noun
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In such cases, law-enforcement officers—but also, at times, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, mostly working for private corporations—watch for days, weeks, and months as ailing people waste away in their care.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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During a procedure to remove the masses, doctors found two additional tumors in her lungs.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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What’s the statistic there, the average ER physician has to see a patient every three to four minutes?—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Compton-Phillips, who also reports to Joyner, was most recently chief physician executive of Press Ganey, a health care performance improvement company.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Your neurologist or psychiatrist may assist you in learning about ongoing research trials.—
Heidi Moawad,
Verywell Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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Lagrange, a neurologist, had diagnosed a 42-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Karen Brown/New England Public Media Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years.—
Karen Brown,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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His childhood was spent roaming the halls of the large brick hospital where his mother worked as an internist.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Read Next Health & Fitness Idaho has lost 22% of its practicing obstetricians in the last 15 months, report says February 20, 2024 12:18 PM Read Next State Politics Need treatment your doctor doesn’t support?—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Highland Park obstetrician doesn’t know if there can be any justice after such a heinous act, which left seven dead, four dozen injured and an entire community terrorized and upended.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Photo: 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection Jeremy Irons gives his career-best performance as Elliot and Beverly, a pair of successful gynecologists who run a Toronto practice together.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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For the recent study, 150 Swiss women with an average age of 25 were recruited from gynecologists’ practices and the University Hospital Basel’s gynecology outpatient clinic between March 2018 and December 2020.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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My ophthalmologist had plunged me into a diagnostic void, into a world of clinical nothingness.—
Peter Ubel,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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And then the ophthalmologist told me there was nothing wrong with my eyes.—
Peter Ubel,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Even so, these and other natural remedies can support standard treatments if used under the direction of a urologist, a medical doctor specializing in urinary tract conditions.—
Robert Burakoff,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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The monitoring urologist has to review 25% of Christ’s active patient records at least once a quarter and send reports to the Board of Medicine’s Probation Committee on Christ.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Pediatrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pediatrician. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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