neurologist

[ noo-rol-uh-jist, nyoo- ]

noun

1. a physician specializing in neurology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of neurologist¹

First recorded in 1825–35; neurolog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

One 2019 study by neurologists at Johns Hopkins University went so far as to link the number with “increased species sophistication.”

From Popular-Science

Grinker’s great-grandfather Julius was a neurologist — and by all accounts an unpleasant man — who did not think much of psychiatry.

From Washington Post

Those children “continue to be exposed,” says Maitreyi Mazumdar, a pediatric neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital who was not involved in the study.

From Science News

“It’s not about carrying a stick around, but about carrots,” said Northam, a pediatric neurologist.

From Washington Post

Your mind is playing tricks on itselfIn recent years, neurologists have identified potential bases for the feeling that someone or something is haunting us.

From Popular-Science

That is the focus of a new study recently published by neurologist Rivka Inzelberg in the Annals of Neurology.

From The Daily Beast

Neurologist Oliver Sacks says the syndrome helps give the Team USA goalie ‘abnormal quickness.’

From The Daily Beast

Brian E. McGeeney, MD, MPH, is a neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.

From The Daily Beast

The famed neurologist and author of the new book Hallucinations talks about how ideas come to him in the water.

From The Daily Beast

It was there, sitting in the neurologist's waiting room, when Mitt grasped the severity of what his wife was up against.

From The Daily Beast

Two years ago she went to a neurologist because of a general physical and nervous breakdown.

From Project Gutenberg

Prominent in the symptoms were headache, sleeplessness, etc., for which the neurologist was consulted.

From Project Gutenberg

It is desirable, first of all, to recall briefly the significance of the word polygon in the sense adopted by that neurologist.

From Project Gutenberg

Heredity is an important factor here, too, as every neurologist is able to attest from his own daily observations.

From Project Gutenberg

A neurologist, versed in the by-products of war, could have made a fair guess at this man's medical-history sheet.

From Project Gutenberg