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virologist

virologist

4 6.4
A scientist who studies viruses and the diseases they cause
  • noun
  • /vaɪˈrɑːlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
: virólogo
  • The virologist explained how viruses replicate and evolve in different environments.

Can't you just search for the ones in bats that are the deadliest from the virologist perspective?

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Examples

  • Dr. Zhao is a virologist and reviewer at the Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Dr A.H. Wong is a medical virologist at the Public Health Laboratory, Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong.

    Academic text (2012)
  • A few months ago, a research virologist discovered a peculiar gene that was immune to the virus.

  • At 30, he's already a legendary field virologist.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • A Belgian virologist told us that there is quote enough difference to be able to say that this is another strain, a second infection.

  • Dr. Maggi is a clinical virologist at the Clinical Virology Unit of the Pisa University Hospital.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Dr. Bucardo is a virologist and professor at the National Autonomous University of León, Nicaragua.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Dr. Jamil is a physician and virologist in the Department of Virology, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Virologists Steven Wyatt at Washington State University and Richard Lister at Purdue University provided the antiviral genes.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Dr. Ousmane Faye is a virologist and acarologist at the Arbovirus and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Unit, Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal.

    Academic text (2014)

How Expert

virologist
  • Specialized
4 6.4
researcher
635 2.7
technician
  • Specialized
178 3.7
swab jockey
  • Slang
1 9.9

Surface Forms

virologist singular
virologists plural

Morphology

virologist = virology (semi-transparent) = virus + ology + ist

The specialist noun is transparently formed from the field term 'virology' plus '-ist', but the stem is a specialized learned form.

Etymology

Virologist comes from virus, which once meant 'poison', and the ending -logist, which means 'one who studies', like in biologist. So a virologist is a scientist who studies viruses and viral diseases.