Pathologist
noun
A doctor who studies diseases and how they affect the body by examining body tissues and fluids.
The pathologist identified the cause of the patient's illness after studying tissue samples from her lungs.

Often appears as...
- consult a pathologist
- pathologist's report
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noun
A doctor who studies diseases and how they affect the body by examining body tissues and fluids.
The pathologist identified the cause of the patient's illness after studying tissue samples from her lungs.

Often appears as...
- consult a pathologist
- pathologist's report
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Medical Expert
Pathologists are specialized doctors; not encountered in routine health care.

For a definitive diagnosis, your samples were sent to a pathologist.
Behind the Scenes
Pathologists work in labs and rarely meet patients; they're critical in determining diagnoses.

The surgery was successful, thanks to the pathologist's precise analysis.
Disease Detective
Pathologists help solve medical mysteries by examining evidence from the body.

The pathologist uncovered the rare infection causing the epidemic.
Medical Expert
Pathologists are specialized doctors; not encountered in routine health care.

For a definitive diagnosis, your samples were sent to a pathologist.
Behind the Scenes
Pathologists work in labs and rarely meet patients; they're critical in determining diagnoses.

The surgery was successful, thanks to the pathologist's precise analysis.
Disease Detective
Pathologists help solve medical mysteries by examining evidence from the body.

The pathologist uncovered the rare infection causing the epidemic.
Medical Expert
Pathologists are specialized doctors; not encountered in routine health care.

For a definitive diagnosis, your samples were sent to a pathologist.
Behind the Scenes
Pathologists work in labs and rarely meet patients; they're critical in determining diagnoses.

The surgery was successful, thanks to the pathologist's precise analysis.
Disease Detective
Pathologists help solve medical mysteries by examining evidence from the body.

The pathologist uncovered the rare infection causing the epidemic.
Video examples
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...
it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you. How about enabling the pathologist to use their cell phone to see at a microscopic level and to lumber that data back to the cloud and make better diagnostics? In fact, the whole era of laboratory medicine is completely changing. We can now leverage microfluidics,
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Finding a Floater PIPE...
encounter something like this because well affect your judgement affect your job the recovery team will arrive shortly to take the body tomorrow a forensic pathologist will conduct an autopsy and search for any clues that could help identify the young man and reveal how he died
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Medicine's future?...
Wi-Fi available beams back images to your eye now if you have trouble maintaining your diet it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you how about enabling the pathologist to use their cellphone again to see at a
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Amanda Bennett: We need...
Then there was a setback when the pathologists looked at the kidney cancer closely. It turned out to be a rare, exceedingly aggressive type, with a diagnosis that was almost universally fatal in several weeks at most. And yet, he did not die.
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The wonderful and...
In this pathology case, the computer system actually discovered that the cells around the cancer are as important as the cancer cells themselves in making a diagnosis. This is the opposite of what pathologists had been taught for decades.
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How AI can enhance our...
Another example with life-changing consequences is diagnosing cancer. When a doctor suspects cancer, they take a sample and send it to a pathologist, who looks at it under a microscope. Now, pathologists look at hundreds of slides
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Welcome to the Body Farm...
forensic anthropologist once decomposition sets in a normal autopsy cannot be done and so the pathologist turns to the anthropologist to come up with some information to provide that
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Zombie Alligator PIPE...
was a strange they look like they were drugged almost there are no external signs of injury no obvious clues so a team of pathologists go to work on the bodies
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Pamela Ronald: The case...
Many people thought that the Hawaiian papaya was doomed, but then, a local Hawaiian, a plant pathologist named Dennis Gonsalves,
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Turning back the clock...
go doctor trying to go back for example a pathologist would look for things like amyloid plaques the tangles that arise
Video examples
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...
it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you. How about enabling the pathologist to use their cell phone to see at a microscopic level and to lumber that data back to the cloud and make better diagnostics? In fact, the whole era of laboratory medicine is completely changing. We can now leverage microfluidics,
Video examples
Finding a Floater PIPE...
encounter something like this because well affect your judgement affect your job the recovery team will arrive shortly to take the body tomorrow a forensic pathologist will conduct an autopsy and search for any clues that could help identify the young man and reveal how he died
Video examples
Medicine's future?...
Wi-Fi available beams back images to your eye now if you have trouble maintaining your diet it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you how about enabling the pathologist to use their cellphone again to see at a
Video examples
Amanda Bennett: We need...
Then there was a setback when the pathologists looked at the kidney cancer closely. It turned out to be a rare, exceedingly aggressive type, with a diagnosis that was almost universally fatal in several weeks at most. And yet, he did not die.
Video examples
The wonderful and...
In this pathology case, the computer system actually discovered that the cells around the cancer are as important as the cancer cells themselves in making a diagnosis. This is the opposite of what pathologists had been taught for decades.
Video examples
How AI can enhance our...
Another example with life-changing consequences is diagnosing cancer. When a doctor suspects cancer, they take a sample and send it to a pathologist, who looks at it under a microscope. Now, pathologists look at hundreds of slides
Video examples
Welcome to the Body Farm...
forensic anthropologist once decomposition sets in a normal autopsy cannot be done and so the pathologist turns to the anthropologist to come up with some information to provide that
Video examples
Zombie Alligator PIPE...
was a strange they look like they were drugged almost there are no external signs of injury no obvious clues so a team of pathologists go to work on the bodies
Video examples
Pamela Ronald: The case...
Many people thought that the Hawaiian papaya was doomed, but then, a local Hawaiian, a plant pathologist named Dennis Gonsalves,
Video examples
Turning back the clock...
go doctor trying to go back for example a pathologist would look for things like amyloid plaques the tangles that arise
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.

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Louis Stokes
American Politician
Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

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Warren Farrell
American Writer
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

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Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

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Steve Miller
American Musician
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

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Laura Harrier
American Actress
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

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Hill Harper
American Actor
All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.

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Louis Stokes
American Politician
Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

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Warren Farrell
American Writer
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

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Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

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Steve Miller
American Musician
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

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Laura Harrier
American Actress
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

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Hill Harper
American Actor
All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

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