EPIDEMIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epidemiologist mean? 

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

1. a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIDEMIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)

Derivation:

epidemiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease)

 Context examples 

These methods allow epidemiologists to address issues like non-experimental studies of mechanistic questions in disease etiology, including studies of the impact of the social position of individuals in different social contexts.

(Epidemiological Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The mission of the CBRG is to engage basic and clinical scientists as well as epidemiologists and statisticians in a search for and validation of promising early cancer biomarkers.

(Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Many previous studies have shown the link between insufficient sleep and higher risk of obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders, said study author Tianyi Huang, Sc.D., epidemiologist of the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)