Physiatrist

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Noun
  1. 1
    A physician specializing in physical rehabilitation.

    "Since it was pioneered in 2001 by Todd Kuiken, a physiatrist and biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, it has been performed on about 30 people in the United States, Canada and Europe, including eight soldiers injured in Iraq or Afghanistan."

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"Since it was pioneered in 2001 by Todd Kuiken, a physiatrist and biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, it has been performed on about 30 people in the United States, Canada and Europe, including eight soldiers injured in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Etymology

From physiatrics + -ist.

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physical rehabilitation

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