IMMUNOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical scientist who specializes in immunology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("immunologist" is a kind of...):

medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)

Instance hyponyms:

Medawar; Peter Medawar; 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))

Derivation:

immunology (the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system)

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