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ORTHOPTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("orthoptist" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Derivation:
orthoptics (treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles))