anesthesiologist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of anesthesiologist
First recorded in 1940–45; anesthesiolog(y) + -ist
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The anesthesiologist said he made enough to afford it, "but I've seen a lot of my friends complaining about it that they're not gonna drive as much as they used to."
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
The doctor introduced himself, and an anesthesiologist did his thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
“You can get into fairly intimate conversations,” says Vivek Moitra, 50, an anesthesiologist and critical-care physician in New York who got into saunas a few years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2025
What if a nurse and the anesthesiologist aren’t getting along that day and their feud affects your care?
From Slate • May 2, 2025
Later that year, a Harvard anesthesiologist named Henry Beecher published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Southam’s research was only one of hundreds of similarly unethical studies.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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