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DIAGNOSTICIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
Synonyms:
diagnostician; pathologist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("diagnostician" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diagnostician"):
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:
diagnostics (the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease)
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