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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dermatologist

dermatologist \der`ma*tol"o*gist\, n. One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology; especially, a physician with specialized training in dermatology, licensed to practise as a specialist in treating diseases of the skin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dermatologist

1833; see dermatology + -ist.

Wiktionary
dermatologist

n. A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology.

WordNet
dermatologist

n. a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin [syn: skin doctor]

Usage examples of "dermatologist".

I was finishing this little analysis of the case when the door was opened and the austere figure of the great dermatologist was ushered in.

Later his six groups were merged into three by an Austrian dermatologist named Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, whose classification was adopted.

When he awoke to find his whole face blistered up like a lobster, he immediately garroted the dermatologist and fled the State of Pennsylvania forever.

In May, along with narcissus and lilacs, the Hungarian dermatologist made his debut.

And little Joan had grown morose and was under the care of a dermatologist who was giving her antibiotics.

Back in the hotel, right now, in the elevator stopped between the kitchen and the banquet floors, I tell Tyler how I sneezed on the trout in aspic for the dermatologist convention and three people told me it was too salty and one person said it was delicious.

Anna Lee and her husband, William, who was now a practicing dermatologist in Seattle, Washington, and their little girls had already arrived to spend Christmas at home.

He was a dermatologist very successful, and lived in a gated community outside Albuquerque.

I had heard that shipboard romances could be really memorable occurrences, but the only person who I could find on deck at night was a wrinkled old dermatologist from Korea who spent the better part of a week trying to convince me that contrary to popular belief the earth was really flat, or at the very least built along the lines of a gently pitched roof.

After the last bottle was drained, and the belly dancer had gone off with the actor, and the three German girls were getting kind of chummy with the crew, and the writer and the Korean dermatologist were coming close to blows about whether the world was flat or merely slanted, those of us who remained finally bade each other a fond goodnight and went off to our various cabins.

We had no more serious problems until we were almost south of Portuguese West Africa, at which point our Korean dermatologist borrowed one of the rifles, lashed himself to the wheel, and explained that while he had nothing against us personally, we nonetheless had to turn the ship around before we sailed over the edge of the world.

Fifty more pounds changed hands, and a few moments later I joined Kim Li Sang, the Korean dermatologist, to Eduardo Duarte, the Paraguayan writer.

Shepherd was a dermatologist, which made her opinions a little suspect.

In affluent towns like Woodley, dermatologists did as well as orthodontists.

Ellen Cherry tried to picture him playing golf with dermatologists from Yonkers, proctolo-gists from White Plains.