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complementologist en · NOUN

Etymology

From complement + -ologist.

Meanings

1. A person who studies or makes clinical use of complementology.
   • For the bacterial species it represents a virulence factor; for the complementologist it demonstrates the important role C5a and C5a des-Arg play in the inflammatory response. 2012, . Whicher & S.W. Evans, Biochemistry of Inflammation, →ISBN, page 27:
   • I feel that books like these fill a gap insofar as up to now the complementologist had to collect his laboratory methods from widely differing books among which the classics of Kabat and Mayer and Weir are known to each of us. 1985, D. T. Fearon, Complement - Volume 2, page 237:
   • As more information becomes available about the cell membrane-associated complement components and receptors, additional applications for the clinical complementologist will become available. 1997, Noel R. Rose, Manual of Clinical Laboratory Immunology, page 180:
   • For this reason, as explained below, complementologist colleagues with neologist vein might find substantial reason to consider updating this deeply rooted misnomer. 2007, Janos Szebeni, The Complement System: Novel Roles in Health and Disease, →ISBN:

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