Word.ws English Dictionary

optomologist

optomologist is the misspelling of ophthalmologist.

Meaning of ophthalmologist

Noun

ophthalmologist (plural ophthalmologists)

  1. A medical doctor specializing in the eye: deficiencies of vision requiring correction, and diseases. Compare optometrist.
    • There is a good deal of scholarship by ophthalmologists— in addition to that done by historians of science, technology and medicine, and others—about the origins of eyeglasses and the evolution of their function and form.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2026
    Synonyms:
    eye doctor, oculist

Questions about optomologist

What is optomologist the misspelling of?
Optomologist is the misspelling of ophthalmologist.

Words near optomologist in the dictionary

  1. optometrically
  2. optometrics
  3. optometrist
  4. optometrists
  5. optometry
  6. optomologist
  7. optomotor
  8. optophobia
  9. optophone
  10. optophones
  11. optophysiologic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: optomologist (page history and authors); ophthalmologist (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “optomologist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/optomologist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.