anaesthesiologist

1943, American English, from anaesthesiology + -ist.

alternative spelling of anaesthesiologist (q.v.). See ae.

1908, from anaesthesia + -ology.

Anesthesiology. This is the new term adopted by the University of Illinois defining “the science that treats of the means and methods of producing in man or animal various degrees of insensibility with or without hypnosis.” [“Medical Herald,” January, 1912]