oculist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated: a specialist who diagnoses or treats eye disorders or tests vision

   An eminent oculist examined the injured eye and recommended surgery.

Borrowed from French oculiste, formed from Latin oculus, 'eye,' with the specialist suffix -iste. English oculist once covered both medical eye doctors and practitioners who tested sight; the more precise modern terms ophthalmologist and optometrist have largely replaced it.

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