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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A physician who specializes in psychiatry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises psychiatry; a psychiater.

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  • noun medicine A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

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  • noun a physician who specializes in psychiatry

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From psychiatry + -ist.

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