neurologist
neurologist noun: a doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
Noun
neurologist (plural neurologists)
- A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
- 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.”2006 October 22, Pam Belluck, “Living With Love, Chaos and Haley”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016, retrieved 09 Dec 2016
- 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.2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017
- Synonyms:
- brain doctor
neurologist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
neurologist in Hindi
- doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology
- स्नायुशास्त्री snāyuśāstrī
neurologist in Tamil
- நரம்பியலாளர்
neurologist in Urdu
- doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology
- عصبیات دان asbiyāt-dān, ماہرِ عصبیات māhir-e-asbiyāt, ماہرۂ عصبیات māhirā-e-asbiyāt
neurologist in Kannada
- ನರವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ, ನರಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಜ್ಞ
Examples of neurologist in a sentence
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
- When the patient entered the consultation room, the neurologist immediately noted his ebrious step, and suspected a lesion of the cerebellum.
- Richard Isaacson, a preventive neurologist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Florida.
Synonyms of neurologist
Forms of neurologist
| plural | neurologists |
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Origin of neurologist
From neuro- + -logist.
Words formed from neurologist
Words that rhyme with neurologist
- scatologist
- accidentologist
- alcohologist
- alienologist
- amphipodologist
- anthologist
- anthropologist
- arthropodologist
- astrologist
- batologist
- brewologist
- buttonologist
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- cardiologist
- Christologist
- climatologist
- copepodologist
- cosmologist
- crabologist
- deep ecologist
- dendrologist
- dickologist
- dinosaurologist
- Dylanologist
- entomologist
- epistemologist
- equinologist
- gerontologist
- graffitologist
- grammatologist
- hydrologist
- hyetologist
- immunohaematologist
- mediologist
- metagrobologist
- mycologist
- neurogastroenterologist
- numerologist
- ologist
- ontologist
- oologist
- ophiolitologist
- ornithologist
- osteoarcheologist
- otolaryngologist
- otorhinolaryngologist
- palaeornithologist
- pathologist
- phonologist
- phycologist
- picornavirologist
- pneumologist
- polemologist
- psychologist
- pulmonologist
- seismologist
- sematologist
- sexologist
- tautologist
- technologist
- thanatologist
Questions about neurologist
- What does neurologist mean?
- Neurologist means a doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
- What is neurologist in Hindi?
- Neurologist in Hindi is स्नायुशास्त्री (snāyuśāstrī). See Neurologist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is neurologist?
- Neurologist is a noun.
- What is the plural of neurologist?
- The plural of neurologist is neurologists.
Words near neurologist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: neurologist (page history and authors); neurologist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); neurologist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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