skin doctor

1. 1.

   a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin

   Synonymsdermatologist

   Broaderspecialist

Questions about skin doctor

What does skin doctor mean?

skin doctor means "a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin".

What is another word for skin doctor?

Close synonyms include dermatologist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skin doctor a common word?

skin doctor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.