Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who studies cells or cytology.

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  • noun A scientist who studies the physical characteristics of chromosomes.
  • noun A biologist who studies cells.

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  • noun a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells

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Examples

  • The key to the explanation lay in the elegant studies performed by Janet Rowley, the Chicago cytologist.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Few scientists had studied this early transition of cancer cells as intensively as George Papanicolaou, a Greek cytologist at Cornell University in New York.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Few scientists had studied this early transition of cancer cells as intensively as George Papanicolaou, a Greek cytologist at Cornell University in New York.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The key to the explanation lay in the elegant studies performed by Janet Rowley, the Chicago cytologist.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The key to the explanation lay in the elegant studies performed by Janet Rowley, the Chicago cytologist.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Few scientists had studied this early transition of cancer cells as intensively as George Papanicolaou, a Greek cytologist at Cornell University in New York.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The Pap smear, invented by a Greek cytologist studying the menstrual cycle of guinea pigs, made it possible to catch cells at a precancerous stage and administer treatment.

    The Most Insidious Illness Laura Landro 2010

  • Whistler or the science of a cytologist, or it may embrace a wide extent of relevance, until at last both artist or scientific inquirer merge in the universal reference of the true philosopher.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • A cytologist himself, Hertwig saw the intricate structures already part of the unfertilized egg, and the changes that occur with fertilization.

    Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

  • In the year 1900 the American cytologist E.B. Wilson, whose own work on genetic continuity was to be so fruitful, wrote in the first edition of The Cell in Development and Inheritance (p. 46) the following

    GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968

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