cytologistn.

1884 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 4 631 On instruments and the laboratory of the microscopist or cytologist.

1895 Ann. Bot. 9 505 Boveri and with him many other cytologists believe that they [sc. the centrosomes] do actively direct and control the process of nuclear division.

1922 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 6) 116 The cytologists have not provided us with any evidence of sex-chromosomes in plants.

1969 Times 15 Mar. 7/7 The system performed very well when set in competition with human cytologists, being no less accurate and much quicker.

1990 J. Bishop & M. Waldholz Genome x. 210 At the time, cytologists could identify human chromosomes only by differences in length.

2001 J. Diamond C: Because Cowards get Cancer Too (new ed.) i. 25 A cytologist—a cell specialist—would stick a needle into my lumpy neck and divine from the result what the contents might be.