physiologist
- noun
- /ˌfɪziˈɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- His colleague, plant physiologist Thomas R. Sinclair, was on that expedition.
- plant physiologist
- animal physiologist
- exercise physiologist
Examples
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For one, animal physiologist Lawrence A. Johnson and his colleagues developed technology.
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David Schafer is a recently retired physiologist who now devotes most of his time to humanist writing and lecturing.
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Yes, Dr. Bill, exercise physiologist, you should try this product before giving us your testimonial.
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The Oxford physiologist Dennis Noble has suggested that perhaps a better analogy might be a musical score.
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Not much is known about how plants freeze, according to ARS plant physiologist Michael Wisniewski.
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One solution is to have an exercise physiologist with expertise in children's health-related physical fitness teach the course.
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Ochoa is also working with ARS plant physiologist John Lydon at the Weed Science Laboratory in Beltsville.
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One of the workshop participants, plant physiologist Tara T. VanToai, has soybean plants growing partly underwater in plots in Columbus, Ohio.
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Plant physiologist Katrina Cornish and associate Christopher Mau examine guayule plantlets that they have genetically engineered.
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Dr. Smith is a renowned physiologist who studies how stress affects human health.
Surface Forms
Morphology
physiologist = physiology (transparent) = physiology + ist
Agentive suffix 'ist' added to the noun 'physiology' yields 'physiologist' meaning 'a person who studies physiology', a straightforward derivation.
Etymology
Physiologist starts with physio-, a Greek root that means 'nature' or 'body' and appears in words like physical, and ends with -logist, which means 'one who studies' as in biologist, so a physiologist is someone who studies how bodies and their parts work.