pædiatrician Med.
(piːdɪəˈtrɪʃən)
Also ped-.
[f. prec. + -ician.]
A specialist or expert in pædiatrics.
| 1903 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) LXIII. 513/2 Dr. L. Emmett Holt said he thought all pediatricians would agree that most of the cases which had given trouble in diagnosis were those in which there was a prolonged fever. 1932 Lancet 12 Nov. 1072/1 (heading) Congress of German pædiatricians in Vienna. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 148/1 The authors, a pediatrician and a psychiatrist, show a broad understanding of the sociological scope of adolescents' difficulties. 1971 C. G. Parsons in S. M. Bates Pract. Paediatric Nursing p. ix, Paediatricians have always depended on nurses to help children to settle into hospital..and to take the mother's place when she has to be separated from her baby. 1976 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 2/1 Women who become pregnant despite being fitted with intra-uterine contraceptive devices..may risk giving birth to seriously malformed babies, a consultant paediatrician has warned. |