bacteriologist
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- noun
- /bækˌtɪəriˈɒlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- Beginning with Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, bacteriologists have worried about the selective force of antibiotics and the resulting problems of resistance.
Examples
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After years of research, the bacteriologist published a groundbreaking study on the role of bacteria in digestion.
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The problem is not merely how to be a geologist or a bacteriologist, but how to pursue such a career in an unideal world that contains both ignorant and demented people, and how to improve systematic knowledge under circumstances where a great deal of nonscientific work is required to clothe, feed, warm, entertain, and otherwise serve human beings.
Academic text (2004) -
Early bacteriologists noted that organisms found in the distribution system reflected those present in the source waters.
Academic text (2000) -
Send a delicious bait from the bacteriologists in Porton.
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Microbiologists, virologists, and bacteriologists around the world are in consensus that the biggest risk for a pandemic comes from respiratory disorders.
Blog text (34) -
The Medusa Committee met again on August 30 because the bacteriologist from Porton Down felt he had discovered all he could at that point about Iraq's germ warfare program, such as it was or appeared to be.
Fiction book (1994) -
I didn't want to believe it, none of us did, but there we were in Helsinki, big and small: Climatologists, bacteriologists, demographers, physicists, immunologists.
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In the late 1930s, local fishermen persuaded the state authorities to reopen the beds for marketing hard clams, using evidence from a bacteriologist who found that the clams had coliform counts below minimum standards.
Academic text (1990) -
The Maltese government bacteriologist, Temistocles Zammit (figure 2), seeing a possible analogy with Malta fever, corresponded with Ross and carried out extensive fieldwork on mosquitoes.
Academic text (2000) -
The bacteriologist conducted experiments to understand how bacteria grow in different environments.
Synonyms
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A scientist who studies living things and where and how they live
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A scientist who studies tiny living things like bacteria and viruses
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A person who studies living things and how they work
Surface Forms
Morphology
bacteriologist = bacteriology (semi-transparent) = bacterio + log + ist
The word is formed by adding '-ist' to 'bacteriology', but the meaning depends on specialized scientific vocabulary rather than everyday English.
Etymology
Bacteriologist comes from a Greek root bacteri- that meant 'small rod' because early scientists saw tiny rod shapes when they looked with a microscope, and the ending -ologist means someone who 'studies', just like in biologist. So a bacteriologist is a person who studies bacteria.