neurologist

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ -logist.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

neurologist (plural neurologists)

1. A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.

   Synonym: (informal) brain doctor

   • 2006 October 22, Pam Belluck, “Living With Love, Chaos and Haley”, in The New York Times, retrieved 9 December 2016:

     When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s all in her head.”

   • 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.

Related terms

• neuritis
• neurologic
• neurological
• neurologically
• neuron

Translations

doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology

• Azerbaijani: nevroloq
• Bulgarian: невроло́г m (nevrológ)
• Catalan: neuròleg m
• Czech: neurolog (cs) m, neuroložka (cs) f
• Danish: neurolog c, nervelæge c
• Dutch: neuroloog (nl) m, neurologe (nl) f
• Esperanto: neŭrologo, neŭrologino (female)
• Finnish: neurologi (fi), hermolääkäri
• French: neurologue (fr) m or f, neurologiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: neurólogo m, neuróloga f
• German: Neurologe (de) m, Neurologin (de) f, Nervenarzt (de) m, Nervenärztin (de) f
• Hungarian: neurológus (hu), ideggyógyász (hu), idegorvos (hu)
• Icelandic: taugalæknir (is) m
• Irish: néareolaí m
• Italian: neurologo (it) m, neurologa f
• Macedonian: невроло́г m (nevrológ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: neurolog m, nevrolog m, nervelege m

  Nynorsk: neurolog m, nevrolog m

• Polish: neurolog (pl), neurolożka f
• Portuguese: neurólogo m, neuróloga f, neurologista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: neurolog (ro) m, neurologă (ro) f (rare)
• Russian: невро́лог (ru) m (nevrólog)
• Spanish: neurólogo (es) m, neuróloga f
• Swedish: neurolog (sv) c
• Turkish: nörolog (tr)
• Urdu: عصبیات دان m or f (asbiyāt-dān), ماہرِ عصبیات m (māhir-e-asbiyāt), ماہرۂ عصبیات f (māhirā-e-asbiyāt)
• Uzbek: nevrolog (uz)