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Definition: Pathologist |
PathologistNoun1. A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pathologist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1923. (references) |
Etymology: Pathologist \Pa*thol"o*gist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression pathologiste.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A doctor who identifies diseases by studying cells and tissues under a microscope. (references) |
Medicine | A person trained and experienced in the study and practice of pathology. . . . . pathology: that branch of biological science which deals with the nature of disease, through study of its causes, its process. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Studies nature, cause, and development of diseases, and structural and functional changes caused by them: Diagnoses, from body tissue, fluids, secretions, and other specimens, presence and stage of disease, utilizing laboratory procedures. Acts as consultant to other medical practitioners. Performs autopsies to determine nature and extent of disease, cause of death, and effects of treatment. May direct activities of pathology department in medical school, hospital, clinic, medical examiner's office, or research institute. May be designated according to specialty as Clinical Pathologist (medical ser.); Forensic Pathologist (medical ser.); Neuropathologist (medical ser.); Surgical Pathologist (medical ser.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PathologistSynonym: diagnostician (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pathologist |
| English words defined with "pathologist": Florey, Francis Peyton Rous ♦ Howard Florey ♦ Karl Landsteiner ♦ Landsteiner ♦ Paget, Peyton Rous ♦ Rous, Rudolf Karl Virchow, Rudolf Virchow ♦ Sir Howard Walter Florey, Sir James Paget ♦ Virchow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pathologist": AUDIOLOGIST ♦ crop scientis, crop-research scientist, CYTOTECHNOLOGIST ♦ histologic technologist, HISTOTECHNOLOGIST ♦ MORGUE ATTENDANT ♦ ORAL PATHOLOGIST ♦ PLANT PATHOLOGIST ♦ speech pathologist ♦ tissue technologis ♦ VETERINARY PATHOLOGIST, VOICE PATHOLOGIST. (references) |
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 | One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Seen is a profile of a woman pathologist viewing a histological slide while sitting at a microscope. This dramatic shot has a blue background, with the microscope and the pathologist's features highlighted with magenta. Light is seen passing through the microscope's condensor to the objectives. See artwork: NCI-22.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Veterinary pathologist Norman Cheville (left), molecular biologist Shirley Halling, and National Animal Disease Center director Harley Moon analyze DNA sequence reactions of a vaccine made from a modified Brucella abortus bacterium. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Plant pathologist Frank Martin examines cultures of different root pathogens that can reduce yields of strawberries grown in poorly or nonfumigated soil. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | ARS plant pathologist Scott Abney (left) and research assistant Tom Richards check the growth of soybeans inoculated with field isolates of Phytophthora sojae. Disease reactions involving specific genes help identify the 45 races of P. sojae that have been reported in the United States. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Ranchers in California set aside portions of their farms for collaborative studies on methyl bromide alternatives for strawberries. Plant pathologist Carolee Bull (right) and technician Adria Bordas evaluate biologically based methods for weed and disease control at Rod Koda's ranch. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Farm manager Arthur Ayala and plant pathologist Carolee Bull discuss commercial variety trials being conducted at the farm of Dale and Christine Coke in San Juan Bautista, California. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | In cooperation with University of California scientist and others, ARS plant pathologist Lars Anderson researches treatments that will stem the growth of aquatic weeds such as Eurasian watermilfoil. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel.. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The speech-language pathologist evaluates the patient's voice and voice quality. (references) | |
A speech pathologist specializes in the disorders of voice, speech, and language. (references) | ||
In a biopsy, tissue is removed for examination under a microscope by a pathologist. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Macedonia | The attending pathologist concluded they had been killed at close range, after being wounded and rendered defenseless. (references) |
Jamaica | The April report of an independent pathologist who observed the post mortem showed that the youths had been killed at close range with bullets to the head. (references) | |
Guyana | Postmortem examinations conducted on the bodies by a government pathologist revealed that bullet wounds were the cause of death. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pathologist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.13% of the time. "Pathologist" is used about 267 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.13% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.87% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 267 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pathologist": speech pathologist. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pathologist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | patolog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إخصائي علم الأمراض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | патолог. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 病理学家. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | patolog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | patolog, patholog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | patholoog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پزشک ویژه گیراسیب شناسی , اسیب شناس . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | patologi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pathologiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pathologe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παθολόγος (general practioner, GP). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פתולו' (coroner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | patológus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ahli patologi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | patologo (nosologist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병리학자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | patoayllee, gorley-oayllee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athologistpay patologista (pathology), patológico (morbidity). (various references) patolog. (various references) патолог. (various references) patolog. (various references) patólogo. (various references) patolog, obducent. (various references) patolog. (various references) патолог. (various references) nh nghiên cứu bệnh học. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pathologist": pathologists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pathologist": histopathologist, immunopathologist, neuropathologist, paleopathologist, psychopathologist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pathologist": histopathologists, immunopathologists, neuropathologists, paleopathologists, psychopathologists. (additional references) | |
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"Pathologist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pantheologus, patholgist, patholoigist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pathologist" (pronounced puthÄ"lujust) |
| 7 | -Ä" l u j u s t | anesthesiologist, anthropologist, apologist, archaeologist, biologist, cardiologist, criminologist, dermatologist, ecologist, endocrinologist, entomologist, epidemiologist, geologist, gerontologist, gynecologist, ideologist, immunologist, kremlinologist, meteorologist, microbiologist, musicologist, neurologist, oncologist, ophthalmologist, paleontologist, physiologist, psychologist, radiologist, rheumatologist, seismologist, serologist, sociologist, toxicologist, urologist, virologist, zoologist. |
| 6 | -l u j u s t | mineralogist. |
| 4 | -j u s t | allergist, hugest, largest, strangest, strategist, technologist. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anticommunist, apprenticed, aquarist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, environmentalist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, illusionist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, methodist, mightiest, mildest, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, palest, panelist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, semifinalist, separatist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, violinist, violist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: apologist, isophotal, spotlight, stoplight. | |
-3 letters: galipots, goalpost, hospital, otoliths, talipots. | |
-4 letters: alights, altoist, apologs, apostil, galiots, galipot, galoots, gasohol, glottis, goatish, hooplas, hotspot, latigos, ologist, ooliths, otolith, photogs, plights, poloist, potshot, spotlit, talipot, topsail, topsoil. | |
-5 letters: alight, apolog, galiot, galoot, galops, galosh, gaslit, gloats, golosh, holist, hoopla, igloos, isolog, laighs, lathis, latigo, latish, lights, lithos, lotahs, lottos, oolith, palish, pastil, pathos, patios, patois, phials, photog, photos, pilots, pistol, plaits, plight, poisha, polios, polish, postal, potash, potato, pottos, saloop, slight, spigot, spilth, spital, spoilt, tahsil, thiols, tholoi, tholos, tights, tilths, tooths, totals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: pathologists. | |
+3 letters: anthropologist, histopathology. | |
+4 letters: anthropologists, histopathologic, ophthalmologist. | |
+5 letters: histopathologies, histopathologist, neuropathologist, ophthalmologists, paleopathologist, photolithographs, phytopathologies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 68 6F 6C 6F 67 69 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01101000 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t h o l o g i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0068 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067867481788173758586 |
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