IMMUNOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunologist mean? 

• IMMUNOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun IMMUNOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a medical scientist who specializes in immunology

  Familiarity information: IMMUNOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNOLOGIST (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)

 Context examples 

Many immunologists hypothesize that food allergens may reach immune cells more easily through a dysfunctional skin barrier affected by atopic dermatitis, thereby setting off biological processes that result in food allergies.

(Scientists identify unique subtype of eczema linked to food allergy, National Institutes of Health)

This collaboration between neuroscientists and immunologists provides important new evidence for ways in which the immune system can play a role in PD, a link that can be used to further define this interaction.

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)