urologist

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English

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Etymology

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From urolog(y) +‎ -ist or uro- +‎ -logist.

Noun

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urologist (plural urologists)

  1. (medicine) A doctor of urology.
    • 1986, Emil Steinberger, G. Frajese, Anna Steinberger, editors, Reproductive Medicine, page 493:
      Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists.
    • 2019 March 28, Christina Caron, “Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?”, in The New York Times[1]:
      In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.

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