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medical scientist

DEFINITIONS OF: medical scientist

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n a scientist who studies disease processes

Examples:
Alice Hamilton
United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970)
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)
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epidemiologist
a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases
immunologist
a medical scientist who specializes in immunology
serologist
a medical scientist who specializes in serology
toxicologist
one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment
Type of:
scientist
a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
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