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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chiropodist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A foot massage by a trained chiropodist is sure to put the spring back into your step and treatments start at £15.
▪ Corns are better dealt with by a chiropodist.
▪ For setting the pace ... foot-friendly trainers with room for growing feet are recommended by chiropodists.
▪ In the case of referral to a dietitian or chiropodist the database dispatches brief details to the relevant department.
▪ Trim toenails if this is easy, but always leave some one who is diabetic to be cared for by a chiropodist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chiropodist

Chiropodist \Chi*rop"o*dist\, n. [Gr. chei`r hand + ?; ?, foot.] One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiropodist

1785, from chiro- "hand" + pod-, stem of Greek pous "foot" (see foot (n.)) + -ist. Probably coined by Canadian-born U.S. healer Daniel Palmer (1845-1913); originally they treated both hands and feet. A much-maligned word among classicists, who point out it could mean "having chapped feet" but probably doesn't, and in that case it is an etymological garble and no one can say for sure what it is meant to signify. Related: Chiropody.

Wiktionary
chiropodist

n. A practitioner of chiropody

WordNet
chiropodist

n. a specialist in care for the feet [syn: foot doctor, podiatrist]

Usage examples of "chiropodist".

I kept on, as I told you, for a whole year with my specialists, going from head to foot, and tapering off with a chiropodist.

And there was the doc ignoring his request for a referral to a chiropodist so Terry could get rid of his troublesome bunion on the NHS, and engaging him instead on issues of mortality.

I told him we could organize a corps of chiropodists to go from camp to camp to cut corns and treat diseases of the feet.

One wouldn't be able to summon chiropodists, masseuses, secretaries, barbers or clothes-pressers in a hurry… but television, why not?

He came with his wife, and while I was healing her he asked if I could do anything for his in-growing toe-nail: he had suffered pain in his toe for years and had been to doctors and chiropodists to no avail.

Anyway, the other replies broke down as follows: five accountants, twelve computer software designers, one data collection manager, two probation officers, one natural catastrophe modeler, three chiropodists, one stockbroker, one master mariner and six solicitors including .

Star becomes convinced that Captain Cork went uncorked and wigged when he lost his leg during a simple ingrown toenail operation bungled by a hip young chiropodist stoned on mescaline.