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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: internal (medicine) + -ist

internist

 noun
     
Related topics: Nurses, Doctors, etc
in‧tern‧ist [countable] American English
MN a doctor who has a general knowledge about all illnesses and medical conditions of organs inside your body, and who treats illnesses that do not need operations
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