• KaryoplasmaEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Otolaryngologists, also called otorhinolaryngologists, tend to ears (greek otos), nose (greek rhis) and throat (greek larynx).

  • Lime Buzz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    102·
    5 months ago

    Actually a gynaecologist is not a ‘doctor of women’ since not only women have that reproductive system, not to mention many women don’t have that reproductive system as well. They’re doctors of vulvas, vaginas, ovaries, cervixes and uteri etc.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      I guess you could say they specialize in female reproductive organs or something

      But this “guide” is just super simplified

      • Lime Buzz@beehaw.orgEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, if they’re going to be biologically essentialist, the least they could do is get their terminology correct.

  • ProtonEvoker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Something I came across after having to have glass removed from my hand: there’s no specific term for a doctor that specializes in hands.

    • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Because its orthopedic surgeon. Orthopedic is just the branch, it basically means “medicine dealing with the bone”. But it literally mean “straightening children”. It’s best not to talk about the literal meaning