paleopathologist
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From paleo- + pathologist, after paleopathology.
Noun
[edit]paleopathologist (plural paleopathologists)
- One who works in paleopathology. [from 20th c.]
- 2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times[1]:
- Della Collins Cook, a paleopathologist at Indiana University who did not participate in the study but specializes in treponemal diseases, praised the research as a “very, very interesting step” advancing understanding of syphilis.
- 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, page 43:
- In other cases, paleopathologists have not found the actual tumors, but rather signs left by the tumors in the body.