PEDIATRICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pediatrician mean? 

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

1. a specialist in the care of babies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDIATRICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in the care of babies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baby doctor; paediatrician; pediatrician; pediatrist

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Instance hyponyms:

Harold Hirschsprung; Hirschsprung (Danish pediatrician (1830-1916))

Benjamin Spock; Spock (United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world (1903-1998))

Derivation:

pediatrics (the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children)

 Context examples 

They recommend that parents make this decision in consultation with their pediatrician.

(Circumcision, NIH)

Though the findings are correlational, the researchers say they may offer an alternative to the outcry from pediatricians and public health officials for later school start times.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)