osteologist

American  

[ahs-tee-ahl-uhj-ist] / ˌɑs tiˈɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

osteologists plural

1. a person with expertise in osteology.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• osteologists
  plural

Example Sentences

The research team from the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Odontology worked with an osteologist from Västergötland's Museum.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2023

“They weren’t ethically sourced in the first place,” Trish Biers, an osteologist and paleopathologist at the University of Cambridge in England, told Live Science.

From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2022

Don Walker, senior human osteologist at the Museum of London Archaeology, analysed some skeletons found at Charterhouse Square in Farringdon.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2017

Don Walker, an osteologist examining one of the skeletons at the Crossrail site, said the bones belonged to a man, under 35, with decent teeth and, for a plague victim, in otherwise good shape.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

Mrs. Darter had her for a long spell, till she got pneumonia, and nigh died, and sickened of the osteologist; and I give her mustard plasters, good strong ones, myself.

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