Definition of Dietician

1. Noun. A specialist in the study of nutrition.

Exact synonyms: Dietitian, Nutritionist
Generic synonyms: Specialiser, Specialist, Specializer
Derivative terms: Diet, Diet, Diet, Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition

Definition of Dietician

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dietitian) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dietician

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dietician

1. A nonmedically qualified person who specialises in the art and science of dietetics - the study of food and its nutritional properties. Dieticians give advice on the design of special diets for well and ill patients. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dietician

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diethylthiambutene
diethyltoluamide
diethyltryptamine
diethynyl
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dietician (current term)
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Literary usage of Dietician

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1907)
""The dietician is the young daughter of domestic science. ... A successful dietician must be an all-round woman with technical training. ..."

2. The Ambitious Woman in Business by Ann Rosenblatt (1916)
"Here is where a business woman dietician is needed to plan the right kind of food for workers. Women's clubs and organizations for business women require ..."

3. Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens (1920)
"Later dietician at Walter Reid Military Hospital, Washington, DC Arrested picketing Aug., 1917, sentenced to 60 days. FRANCIS FOWI. ..."

4. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1845)
"... and, as a philosopher, I have an intense interest in physiology, chemistry, and other branches of the profession, yet, as a dietician, I know them to be ..."

5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1853)
"The influence of cookery on food is a subject of great importance to the dietician, whether he looks on it from a purely philanthropic and economical, ..."

6. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"WANTED ^ dietician to supervise all the cooking " in a large hospital ... Also, a dietician for the diet kitchen. Salary $70.00 and $50.00 respectively. ..."

7. How to Choose the Right Vocation: Vocational Self-measurement Based Upon by Holmes Whittier Merton (1917)
"Makes a study of the nutritive values, quality, and the dietician medicinal ... See dietician «xP«rt above. Reason-chemistry. Ess. "Number," "Attention. ..."

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