neurologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥

Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.

Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)

Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.

English neuro-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English -logist

English neurologist

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^[1], archived from the original on 10 March 2016, 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^[2], archived from the original on 30 June 2017:

     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.

Derived terms

• otoneurologist
• palaeoneurologist
• paleoneurologist

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
• Hindi: स्नायुशास्त्री m (snāyuśāstrī)
• 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)