anesthesiologist
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anesthesiologists
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noun
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Origin of anesthesiologist
First recorded in 1940–45; anesthesiolog(y) + -ist
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Marek Domanski, 67, a pediatric anesthesiologist in Fresno, Calif., who also has a home in Boise, Idaho.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
We lose muscle mass as we age, notes Dr. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiologist and exercise expert at the Mayo Clinic.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Though Lapicki works with plenty of certified registered nurse anesthetists—who are able to administer anesthesia—he or another anesthesiologist are always physically on hand, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
The doctor introduced himself, and an anesthesiologist did his thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Later that year, a Harvard anesthesiologist named Henry Beecher published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Southam’s research was only one of hundreds of similarly unethical studies.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Dr. Muhsen Abdullah, the surgeon who heads the emergency room, spoke with a weary tone of a ward without surgical thread or stitches, and anesthesiologists forced to ask patients to purchase their own anesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Outside of Tokyo and other big cities, access to epidurals is hampered by a lack of anesthesiologists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Patients come to the main U-M medical campus around eight times during the span of a month for infusions under the care of psychiatrists, anesthesiologists and other clinicians.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
Nurses, techs, OB residents and attendings, anesthesiologists, and Joe, with Hannah tucked against his chest in a warm football hold.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023
No obstetricians, no anesthesiologists, no fancy monitoring devices.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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