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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ophthalmologist

Ophthalmologist \Oph`thal*mol"o*gist\, n. One skilled in ophthalmology; an oculist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ophthalmologist

1834; see ophthalmology + -ist.

Wiktionary
ophthalmologist

n. A medical doctor specializing in the eye: deficiencies of vision requiring correction, and diseases. Compare optometrist.

WordNet
ophthalmologist

n. a medical doctor specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye [syn: eye doctor, oculist]

Usage examples of "ophthalmologist".

Adrian Logue, the ophthalmologist, or whatever he claimed to be, who lived at the farmhouse in West Redding.

This had to be the tape he was talking about with the ophthalmologist, Dr.

Coming to work was stimulating, even exciting, which was a far cry from how Jack had felt in his former life as an ophthalmologist, when each day had been comfortable but utterly predictable.

The ophthalmologist was a man with a taste for literature and a flair for coming up with the right quotation.

In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.

The thief sensed that there was something unusual here, logically it was the doctor who, although no more than an ophthalmologist, should have bandaged the wound, but the consolation of knowing that something was being done outweighed the doubts, vague as they were, that had momentarily crossed his mind.

In the case under scrutiny, the pedagogical approach of the blind woman at the far end of the ward seems to have had a decisive influence, that woman married to the ophthalmologist, who has never tired of telling us, If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals, words she repeated so often that the rest of the ward ended up by transforming her advice into a maxim, a dictum, into a doctrine, a rule of life, words which deep down were so simple and elementary, probably it was just that state of mind, propitious to any understanding of needs and circumstances, that contributed, even if only in a minor way to the warm welcome the old man with the black eyepatch found there when he peered through the door and asked those inside, Any chance of a bed here.

As cruel fate would have it, amongst all these inmates there is only one doctor, and an ophthalmologist at that, the last thing we needed.

Soon even some of the younger attendings began to compete, including a handsome ophthalmologist who could not take no for an answer.

Cassi said something about seeing her ophthalmologist and hurried off the floor.

Thursday evenings, she wanted to hold a series of lectures, asking a dietitian, podiatrist, and an ophthalmologist to speak.

She was reminded uncomfortably of the light the ophthalmologist uses to see through the eye into the brain.

She looked up Donny MacDonald, and learned he was an ophthalmologist living in New Lyme, Connecticut.

He was an ophthalmologist, like his father, and worked in the same clinic where his father played God as head of it all, and he had put in a full week, just as she had done.

Even my internist and ophthalmologist divorced their wives to marry their receptionists.