VIROLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virologist mean? 

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

1. a specialist in virology

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIROLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in virology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)

Instance hyponyms:

Jonas Edward Salk; Jonas Salk; Salk (United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914))

Derivation:

virology (the branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases)

 Context examples 

According to virologist Edison Luiz Durigon, professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo and leader of the team that developed the kit, the test is between 92 and 100 per cent accurate.

(New blood test to detect Zika approved in Brazil, SciDev.Net)