Meanings
plural otologists
- A doctor specializing in otology.First known use 19th c.
“We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
2007 September 4, Jamie Talan, “Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success”, in New York Times1 more example
Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary ReviewSynonyms: aurist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA doctor specializing in otology.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From oto- + -logist, after otology.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech otolog
- otologdoctor specializing in otology
Danish otolog
- otologdoctor specializing in otology
Finnish korvalääkäri
- korvalääkäridoctor specializing in otology
Hungarian fülorvos
- fülorvosdoctor specializing in otology
Irish cluaslia
- cluasliadoctor specializing in otology
Romanian otolog
- otologdoctor specializing in otology
Spanish otólogo
- otólogodoctor specializing in otology
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otologist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/otologist
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