iatro-

combining form

1

: physician : medicine : healing

iatrology

iatrogenic

2

: physician and

iatrochemist

: medicine or healing and

iatrophysics

iatro-astrological

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek, from iatros physician

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