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bioengineer

bioengineer

1 5.5
A person who uses engineering to solve medical or biological problems
  • noun
  • /ˌbaɪoʊˈɛndʒɪnɪr/
  • Specialized
translation icon : bioingeniero
  • He's the world's arguably top bioengineer in the field of neuroscience.
  • bioengineer at university
  • bioengineer at Stanford

He's the world's arguably top bioengineer in the field of neuroscience.

Examples

  • You know, you're not the only bioengineer on board.

  • Sure, a bioengineer could fashion an artificial hip, but how could mechanical engineering hope to remedy the common cold or cure cancer?

    Academic text (2010)
  • "Bioengineer notorious for radical views."

  • Humayun, who is also a bioengineer, is the lead researcher on the Artificial Retina Project.

    Academic text (2003)
  • We were among the first to insert new genes into corn, a troublesome grain to bioengineer.

    Academic text (1994)
  • She's a Caltech bioengineer, and here's what she does.

  • Malcolm MacIver is a bioengineer at Northwestern University who studies the neural and biomechanical basis of animal intelligence.

    Blog text (33)
  • In an instance of serendipity brought to me by my good friends Facebook and Twitter, I stumbled upon the breaking news that a bioengineer and a geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute had smashed the DNA density storage record by a thousand times.

    Blog text (18)
  • The second is a long-term mission to bioengineer disenlanguagement within the human gene pool so as to unfacilitate the genetic carryization of linguistic ability from the parent interjectory informational set to the offspring receptor unit.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • A bioengineer developed a new method for growing tissues that can be used in transplants.

How Experienced

senior
800 2.9
bioengineer
  • Specialized
1 5.5

Surface Forms

bioengineer singular
bioengineers plural

Morphology

bioengineer = engineer (transparent) = bio + engineer

The meaning is directly built from the biological prefix bio- plus engineer, so a learner can recover the sense from the parts.

Etymology

The word bioengineer combines bio- and engineer. The bio- part means 'life', the same 'bio' in biology, and an engineer is someone who designs machines and tools, so a bioengineer is a person who builds and designs tools or systems for living things.