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Definition of Physiatrist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Physiatrist
1. A physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Physiatrists specialise in restoring optimal function to people with injuries to the muscles, bones, tissues, and nervous system (such as stroke victims). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physiatrist
Literary usage of Physiatrist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Close collaboration is required among the physiatrist, ... The surgeon may help
in improving mechanics, the physiatrist may help in performing intramuscular ..."
2. Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury by Randall M. Chesnutt, Oregon Health Sciences University (1999)
"Apart from its effect on LOS and condition on admission or discharge from a
rehabilitation unit, early involvement of a physiatrist as part of the acute- ..."
3. Gait Analysis In The Science Of Rehabilitation by Joel A. DeLisa (1998)
"SECTION THREE Chapter One The Value of Information Resulting from Instrumented
Gait Analysis: The physiatrist by Andrew Gitter, MD and Robert McAnelly, ..."
4. Gait Analysis In The Science Of Rehabilitation by Joel A. DeLisa (1998)
"SECTION THREE Chapter One The Value of Information Resulting from Instrumented
Gait Analysis: The physiatrist by Andrew Gitter, MD and Robert McAnelly, ..."
5. Bound for Good Health: A Collection of Age PagesMedical (1993)
"... nose, and throat • physiatrist—a specialist in physical medicine and
rehabilitation • Psychiatrist—a specialist in mental, emotional, and behavioral ..."
6. Treatment Of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline by Nancy Bergstrom (1997)
"... nutritionist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, geriatrician, and
physiatrist. Consultants with special expertise, such as dermatologists or ..."
7. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"... always acted suitably against the parasitic -dix (physiatrist). An utterly
fantastic direction was taken by CARL RICHARD HOFMANN (died 1851) in Erlangen ..."
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