pharmacologist
- noun
- /ˌfɑːr.məˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
- Specialized
- After years of research, the pharmacologist published findings on a breakthrough treatment.
- behavioral pharmacologist
Examples
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Published since 1959, the International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.
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The test was done by Paula Bickford, a collaborating pharmacologist with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
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However, I am also a professional pharmacologist engaged in the teaching of medical students.
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I was fortunate to be among the second to third generations of behavioral pharmacologists.
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Personal reflections of three behavioral pharmacologists provide examples of important influences in the field.
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Behavioral pharmacology research grew from the interdisciplinary work of pharmacologists and behavioral scientists.
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Clinical scientists continued trials until mid-year, while the synthetic chemists, pharmacologists, and biologists concluded their programs under the board.
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I have been very fortunate to work closely with so many creative and thoughtful behavioral pharmacologists and to find a small niche that allowed me to integrate my early neuropharmacology training into human behavioral pharmacology.
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As a pharmacologist, she studies how different medications affect the human body.
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The pharmacologist explained the side effects of the new drug during the seminar.
Synonyms
A scientist who studies illnesses and how to find and treat them
A scientist who studies and creates medicines to treat illnesses
Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmacologist = pharmacology (semi-transparent) = pharmacology + ist
The relation pharmacology + -ist (= a person who studies or works in that field) is a regular and productive English suffixation.
Etymology
Pharmacologist comes from the Greek word pharmakon meaning 'drug' or 'medicine' and the ending -logist, which means 'one who studies' and shows up in words like biologist and geologist. So a pharmacologist is someone who studies drugs and how they work.