PATHOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pathologist mean? 

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

1. a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATHOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diagnostician; pathologist

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)

 Context examples 

Some pathologists believe that these proliferations are premalignant.

(Low Grade Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Laser capture microdissection is a new technology developed in the Intramural Program to allow sampling of specific cells under direct microscopic visualization by a pathologist.

(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)

The removal of a small piece of lung tissue to be checked by a pathologist for cancer or other diseases.

(Lung biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

A pathologist who specializes in diseases of the nervous system.

(Neuropathologist, NCI Dictionary)

The description of cells and tissues made by a pathologist based on microscopic evidence, and sometimes used to make a diagnosis of a disease.

(Pathology report, NCI Dictionary)

Combining the predictions made by the AI with predictions by human pathologists led to an even greater accuracy.

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

The biopsy tissue is examined under a microscope by a pathologist.

(Incisional biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

The removal of cells or tissues for examination by a pathologist.

(Biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

A certified speech language pathologist who is board recognized as an expert in swallowing disorders.

(Board Recognized Specialist - Swallowing, NCI Thesaurus)

The system provides a reproducible description of the glandular architecture of prostate tissue to which a pathologist assigns a score depending primarily on the microscopic patterns of cancerous glands and cell morphology.

(Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)