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paleopathologist en · NOUN

Etymology

From paleo- + pathologist, after paleopathology.

Meanings

1. One who works in paleopathology.
   • Della Collins Cook, a paleopathologist at Indiana University who did not participate in the study but specializes in treponemal diseases, praised the research as a “very, very interesting step” advancing understanding of syphilis. 2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times:
   • In other cases, paleopathologists have not found the actual tumors, but rather signs left by the tumors in the body. 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, page 43:

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