English > diagnostician: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis. |
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Synonym | pathologist |
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Instances | Florey, Howard Florey, Sir Howard Walter Florey | British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) |
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Landsteiner, Karl Landsteiner | United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943) |
Paget, Sir James Paget | English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899) |
Rous, Peyton Rous, Francis Peyton Rous | United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970) |
Virchow, Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Karl Virchow | German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902) |
Narrower | etiologist, aetiologist | A specialist in the etiology of diseases |
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Broader | specialist, medical specialist | practices one branch of medicine |
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Spanish | patologista, patólogo |
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Catalan | patòleg, patologista |
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Nouns | diagnostics | the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease |
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