noun
Meaning 1
A person who is skilled at, or practices, endocrinology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
endocrinologist
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noun
Meaning 2
physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: specialist, medical specialist
Narrower terms: Turner, Henry Hubert Turner
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English endocrinology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English endocrinologist From endocrinology + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: endocrinòleg — practitioner of endocrinology
- Chinese Mandarin: 內分泌學家 /内分泌学家 (nèifēnmìxuéjiā) — practitioner of endocrinology
- Danish: endokrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Dutch: endocrinoloog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Esperanto: endokrinologo — practitioner of endocrinology
- Finnish: endokrinologi — practitioner of endocrinology
- French: endocrinologue — practitioner of endocrinology
- Galician: endocrinólogo — practitioner of endocrinology
- German: Endokrinologe — practitioner of endocrinology
- German: Endokrinologin — practitioner of endocrinology
- Greek: ενδοκρινολόγος (endokrinológos) — practitioner of endocrinology
- Hungarian: endokrinológus — practitioner of endocrinology
- Italian: endocrinologo — practitioner of endocrinology
- Italian: endocrinologa — practitioner of endocrinology
- Latin: endocrinologista — practitioner of endocrinology
- Latin: endocrinologistus — practitioner of endocrinology
- Norwegian Bokmål: endokrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Norwegian Nynorsk: endokrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Polish: endokrynolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Portuguese: endocrinologista — practitioner of endocrinology
- Romanian: endocrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Romanian: endocrinologă — practitioner of endocrinology
- Russian: эндокрино́лог (endokrinólog) — practitioner of endocrinology
- Spanish: endocrinólogo — practitioner of endocrinology
- Swedish: endokrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
- Turkish: endokrinolog — practitioner of endocrinology
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