endocrinologist

[ en-doh-kruh-nol-uh-jist, -krahy- ]

noun

1. a scientist who specializes in the study of the endocrine glands and their secretions, especially in relation to their processes or functions:

   The brand-name medicine prescribed by the endocrinologist for my underactive thyroid was extremely expensive.

Word History and Origins

Origin of endocrinologist¹

endocrinolog(y) ( def ) + -ist ( def )

Example Sentences

So he went to his endocrinologist, who put him on a strict 1,200-calorie-per-day diet, which Wilson followed closely.

From Time

Lapine, who lives in New York, had never heard of it, nor had her endocrinologist warned of the possibility of developing it.

From Time

As Booth, who is also an endocrinologist, puts it, doctors consider weight gain to be one of the biggest risk factors for diabetes—even though it’s dependent on individual risk factors and genes.

From Popular-Science

Leigh, a pediatric endocrinologist in the southeast, says people have tweeted at her asking her how she sleeps at night, arguing she is violating God’s plan.

From Time

An endocrinologist might run appropriate tests and then spend months or even years working with the patient to figure out a medication regimen and lifestyle plan that actually works for them.

From Outside Online

Endocrinologist Dr. Jeffrey Garber told NPR that the kale-hypothyroidism connection has been “overplayed.”

From The Daily Beast

The medical jargon was over my head, so I personally hired an endocrinologist and he walked me through the records.

From The Daily Beast