English Explanatory Dictionary

hospitalist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hospitaller.
  2. A physician who specializes in the care of hospital in-patients.

Word forms

hospitalist hospitalists

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Late Latin hospitālisbor. Old French hospitalbor. Middle English hospital English hospital Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English hospitalist From hospital + -ist. The “physician” sense was coined by Robert M. Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Derived words

neurohospitalist nonhospitalist surgicalist
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