English > pathologist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis. |
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| Synonym | diagnostician |
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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 | pathology | the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases |
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| pathology | any deviation from a healthy or normal / normal condition |
