Other forms: pathologists
A pathologist is a doctor who studies disease and examines the dead. A forensic pathologist.
Most of the work is examining samples from living patients rather than anything dramatic. A pathologist decides what most cancers actually are, which is why nothing is treated before the report.
1nounpathologistA doctor who studies disease and examines the dead.
“The pathologist gave evidence for two days.”
pathologist is a doctor.
French
pathologie
English
pathology
English, today
pathologist
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From pathology + -ist. pathology Borrowed from French pathologie, from grc + πᾰ́θος. From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (“disease”) and -λογία (“study of”). by surface analysis, path- + -ology or patho- + -logy.
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