CARDIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiologist mean? 

• CARDIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun CARDIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart

  Familiarity information: CARDIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cardiologist; heart specialist; heart surgeon

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Derivation:

cardiology (the branch of medicine dealing with the heart and its diseases)

 Context examples 

Dr. Ahmed Tawakol is a cardiologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study.

(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)

Coronary inflammation offers important clues about the risk of developing heart artery disease, said study’s senior author Nehal N. Mehta, M.D., a cardiologist and head of the Lab of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases at NHLBI.

(Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition, National Institutes of Health)

The finding does not suggest that heart attack patients should try to gain weight if they are of normal weight, said cardiologist Dr. Ian Neeland, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and first author of the study.

(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Daniel San Vicente, cardiologist and president of the Montevideo regional council of the Medical College of Uruguay, said the current concentration of particles in the air was not enough to have an impact on health.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

"A big problem associated with type 2 diabetes is that beta cells stop functioning properly and fade away," said senior author Dr. James C. Lo, assistant professor of medicine and of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)