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PATHOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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:
A speech language pathologist who has received a certificate of clinical competence.
(Certificate of Clinical Competence - Speech Language Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)
A chemical used in manufacturing and chemical industries, and as a preservative by anatomists, embalmers, and pathologists.
(Formaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)
Pathologist is a doctor specialized in medical diagnosis based on the macroscopic and microscopic study of structural changes of tissues and organs caused by the disease.
(Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)
A speech language pathologist who is providing services in a mentored, professional training setting prior to receiving a certificate of clinical competence.
(Clinical Fellow - Speech Language Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)
After review of the reference slide by a pathologist, tissues are robotically dissected in large groups.
(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)
A pathologist identifies disease by studying cells and tissues under a microscope.
(Neuropathologist, NCI Dictionary)
The pathologist may study the tissue under a microscope or perform other tests on the cells or tissue.
(Biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
The group found that the features discovered by the AI were more accurate (AUC=0.820) than predictions made based on the human-established cancer criteria developed by pathologists, the Gleason score (AUC=0.744).
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The system is integrated into a pathologist's microscope so that the cells are microdissected, transferred to the cap, and then rotated into a vial by a rotating arm in a hands-off operation. (from Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) Update)
(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)
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