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

After a visit with a neurologist, the actor said he learned he had a condition called transient global amnesia.

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The data show that only five of those neurologists treated significant numbers of South Carolina’s Medicaid patients.

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She has further reached broad audiences through Oliver Sacks’ book, “Migraine,” in which the widely read neurologist proposed that Hildegard’s visions were a result of her headaches.

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But his two siblings -- corporate executive Lee Hsien Yang and the late neurologist Lee Wei Ling -- have pointed to language in their father's will calling for its demolition.

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When Texas neurologist Hamid Kadiwala told his parents he was heading to Gaza to volunteer at a hospital there, they begged him to reconsider.

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