On one hand you have pharmacist, dentist, anethsacist, psychiatrist, etc. One the other you have cardiologist, urologist, neurologist, etc.
Is there a rule for this, or just what sounds better? Could you have a neuralist or a psyciatrologist?
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Just took a medical terminology class that went over this. Basically ‘ist’ means specialist or practitioner. Ignore the ‘ologist’ part. “ology” is a suffix and it means study of. So cardiology, urology, and neurology all mean study if a certain field/body part. Medical terms are constructed in a certain way, with prefix, root, combining form and suffix. Not all medical words have a prefix or suffix. But all will have a root. It can be confusing because suffix can be a combination of words. Just like language these rules aren’t always followed
So for example cardiologist deconstructed is cardi/ologist
Cardi means heart and ologist means practioner if heart.
Cardiology deconstructed is cardi/ology
Cardi means heart ology means study of.
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