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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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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

Leave any cartilage attachments and any parts of a bony nature for the osteologist, to be on the safe side.

From Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Farnham, Albert B.

While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a consciously 'splendid woman,' accustomed to overhear herself so denominated by elderly osteologists pursuing their studies in dinner society, Mrs Podsnap could dispense with her daughter.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

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