otologist

English

Etymology

From oto- +‎ -logist, after otology.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈtɒlədʒɪst/

Noun

otologist (plural otologists)

1. A doctor specializing in otology. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007 September 4, Jamie Talan, “Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

   • 2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review:

     Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.

Synonyms

• aurist (dated)

Translations

doctor specializing in otology

• Czech: otolog (cs) m
• Danish: otolog ?
• Finnish: korvalääkäri
• Hungarian: fülorvos (hu)
• Irish: cluaslia m
• Romanian: otolog (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ото̀лог m

  Roman: otòlog (sh) m

• Spanish: otólogo m

Further reading

• “otologist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.