paediatristpediatristn.
/ˌpiːˈdʌɪətrɪst/, /ˌpiːdɪˈatrɪst/, U.S. /ˌpidiˈætrəst/ Medicine. rare.
= paediatrician n.
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paediatrician1903
neonatologist1960
1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 44 I wish to speak more especially to the general practitioner and pediatrist.
1937 Life 26 July 80/2 Arnold Lucius Gesell, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., famed pediatrist and clinical psychologist, is the Director of Yale University's Clinic of Child Development which he founded in 1911 for the purpose of studying the backward child.
2002 Times of India (Nexis) 15 Apr. If your newborn reflects the symptoms of loss of breath, profuse sweating, infections and feeding difficulty, it's high time you visit a specialist, warns Dr Savitri Srivastava, retired paediatrist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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