pathologist

American  

[puh-thah-luh-jist] / pəˈθɑ lə dʒɪst /

noun

1. a person who studies or works in pathology.

2. a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing diseases.

3. Also called forensic pathologist. a medical doctor whose specialty is determining why someone died by examining their body.

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Example Sentences

By the end of his life, Weiland couldn’t speak and was given an iPad by his daughter-in-law, a speech pathologist, to communicate.

From The Wall Street Journal

A pathologist studies an extremely thin slice of human tissue under a microscope, searching for visual signs that reveal whether cancer is present and, if so, what type and stage it has reached.

From Science Daily

Grieving families are waiting up to a year to find out how children have died due to a shortage of pathologists.

From BBC

Avery Shannon of Prosper, Texas, was initially skeptical when her parents, a speech pathologist and a banker, started investing her money for her in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal

But with the authorities severely under-resourced - there is only one pathologist in a country that has a population of 8.9 million - it is often impossible to gather the evidence needed to track down the culprits.

From BBC