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IMMUNOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical scientist who specializes in immunology
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("immunologist" is a kind of...):
medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)
Instance hyponyms:
Medawar; Peter Medawar; Sir Peter Brian Medawar (British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987))
Derivation:
immunology (the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system)