BACTERIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bacteriologist mean? 

• BACTERIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun BACTERIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist who studies bacteria

  Familiarity information: BACTERIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACTERIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist who studies bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

 Context examples 

This is a method (named after the Danish bacteriologist, Hans Christian Gram) for staining and identifying bacteria.

(Gram Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

I read it aloud to the critical bacteriologist with some pride in my handiwork.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)