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hospitalist

hospitalist noun: a hospitaller.

Noun

hospitalist (plural hospitalists)

  1. A hospitaller.
  2. (US) A physician who specializes in the care of hospital inpatients.

Forms of hospitalist

pluralhospitalists

Origin of hospitalist

From hospital + -ist. The “physician” sense was coined by Robert M. Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Words formed from hospitalist

Questions about hospitalist

What does hospitalist mean?
Hospitalist means a hospitaller.
What part of speech is hospitalist?
Hospitalist is a noun.
What is the plural of hospitalist?
The plural of hospitalist is hospitalists.

Words near hospitalist in the dictionary

  1. hospitalise
  2. hospitalised
  3. hospitalises
  4. hospitalising
  5. hospitalism
  6. hospitalist
  7. hospitalists
  8. hospitalities
  9. hospitality
  10. hospitality box
  11. hospitality boxes

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