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EYE DOCTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye
Synonyms:
eye doctor; oculist; ophthalmologist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eye doctor" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Instance hyponyms:
Hermann Snellen; Snellen (Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908))
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