Virologist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses.
  2. 2
    a specialist in virology wordnet

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""In a lot of cases, we don't know all their mechanisms of action," said University of Manitoba virologist Jason Kindrachuk. "Sometimes we actually find that there are effects that we didn't recognize initially.""

Etymology

From virology + -ist.

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