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pathologist|pəˈθɒlədʒɪst|
[f. pathology + -ist.]
One versed in pathology (see also quots. 1971, 1977); a student of or writer upon diseases.
1650Charleton tr. van Helmont's Incongruities Deflux. Translator to Rdr., No one..among the numerous swarm of Pathologists, has discoursed of the nature and causes of such Diseases. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 417 The philosophic pathologist is as different from the physician, as a jurist is different from an advocate. 1971Lancet 29 May 1124/1 A pathologist (O.E.D., probably about 1905) is ‘One versed in pathology: a student of or writer upon diseases’ and pathology ‘treats of the causes and nature of diseases’. Even at that time, when departments of pathology were beginning to be usual in medical schools and several specialised journals included the word in their titles, that was a little out of date... The word was already used chiefly for practitioners of laboratory medicine. By the thirties it had differentiated further: non-specialised laboratory doctors called themselves ‘clinical pathologists’, but used alone the word was increasingly limited to practitioners of the oldest branch of the trade, morbid-anatomy-histopathology. The N.H.S. has partly reversed this trend, advertising posts, for instance, as ‘pathologist with a special interest in bacteriology’. The Royal College of Pathologists goes even further, being anxious to include the non-medical biochemists, though there is..a backwoods faction which challenges the propriety of calling anyone non-medical a pathologist. 1977Role & Membership of College (R. College of Pathologists) 5 The pathologist can be defined as a medical (or dental) graduate who has ultimate responsibility for the diagnostic tests performed in the pathology laboratory and for the advice given to clinicians on the selection and interpretation of tests. |