Anaesthetist
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anaesthetist:
(in American English: ‘anesthetist’)
{also ‘anesthesiologist’)
a qualified medical doctor or nurse who gives anaesthetic (= sleep causing drug) to a patient before the patient is operated on by a surgeon
(An anaesthetist/anesthetist may be a qualified and trained doctor or nurse but an anesthesiologist is a qualified doctor.)
(‘surgeon’ = a doctor who cuts open the body parts and often removes damaged parts of the body to cure sickness)
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