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PATHOLOGIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis

Synonyms:

diagnostician; pathologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pathologist" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pathologist"):

aetiologist; etiologist (a specialist in the etiology of diseases)

Instance hyponyms:

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))

Karl Landsteiner; 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))

Francis Peyton Rous; Peyton Rous; Rous (United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970))

Rudolf Karl Virchow; Rudolf Virchow; Virchow (German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902))

Derivation:

pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A speech language pathologist who has received a certificate of clinical competence.

(Certificate of Clinical Competence - Speech Language Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical used in manufacturing and chemical industries, and as a preservative by anatomists, embalmers, and pathologists.

(Formaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)

Pathologist is a doctor specialized in medical diagnosis based on the macroscopic and microscopic study of structural changes of tissues and organs caused by the disease.

(Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A speech language pathologist who is providing services in a mentored, professional training setting prior to receiving a certificate of clinical competence.

(Clinical Fellow - Speech Language Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)

After review of the reference slide by a pathologist, tissues are robotically dissected in large groups.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologist identifies disease by studying cells and tissues under a microscope.

(Neuropathologist, NCI Dictionary)

The pathologist may study the tissue under a microscope or perform other tests on the cells or tissue.

(Biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

The group found that the features discovered by the AI were more accurate (AUC=0.820) than predictions made based on the human-established cancer criteria developed by pathologists, the Gleason score (AUC=0.744).

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The system is integrated into a pathologist's microscope so that the cells are microdissected, transferred to the cap, and then rotated into a vial by a rotating arm in a hands-off operation. (from Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) Update)

(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)