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specialist (iou)



specialist noun & adjective. M19.
[from SPECIAL adjective + -IST.]
A. noun.
A medical practitioner having advanced training in and dealing exclusively with the study or treatment of a particular disease or a class of diseases affecting a particular part or system of the body or a particular group of people. M19.
Lancet This is..because of the range of specialists involved, including..interventional radiologists. Reader's Digest Dr Howard Flaks, a bariatric (obesity) specialist.
A person who specially or exclusively studies a subject or a particular branch of a subject. Opp. GENERALIST. M19.
D. Halberstam Reporters who were often highly trained specialists..wrote of national implications. Which Micro? A..computer of limited usefulness to anyone other than a specialist. Boston Specialists in international financial services.
b. An enlisted person in the US army employed on technical or administrative duties but not having command responsibilities. Cf. SPEC noun4. M20.
Ecology. A species which is closely adapted, and largely restricted, to a particular mode of life. M20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for a specialist or specialists. L19.
Punch Dick..runs the London specialist bookshop Forbidden Planet. G. Boddy Despite specialist opinion that such treatment was her only chance.
specialism noun (a) restriction or devotion to one aspect of a subject or area of study; (b) a specialized area of study or work: M19.
specia'listic adjective L19.