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BACTERIOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A biologist who studies bacteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bacteriologist" is a kind of...):
biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)
Instance hyponyms:
Bruce; David Bruce; Sir David Bruce (Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931))
Ehrlich; Paul Ehrlich (German bacteriologist who found a 'magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915))
Alexander Fleming; Fleming; Sir Alexander Fleming (Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955))
Gram; Hans C. J. Gram (Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938))
Koch; Robert Koch (German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910))
Elie Metchnikoff; Elie Metchnikov; Ilya Ilich Metchnikov; Metchnikoff; Metchnikov (Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916))
Hideyo Noguchi; Noguchi (United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928))
Hans Conrad Julius Reiter; Reiter (German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969))
August von Wassermann; Wassermann (German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925))
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin; Alexandre Yersin; Yersin (French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943))
Hans Zinsser; Zinsser (United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940))
Derivation:
bacteriology (the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease)
