Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a special study of the blood and of the changes which occur in it in health and in disease.
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- noun A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in
hematology .
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- noun a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Additionally, only one in five people correctly answered that a hematologist is the type of specialist who treats blood disorders; similarly, only one in five could define hematology.
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I want to bring Kavia up to speed on all of it, fill in the gaps until that moment when I’m pretending the hematologist is a television actress instead of a hematologist, while Grams died alone—
Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010
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Phillipa, in practice mostly a hematologist but also an oncologist by training, should have been called when Harry was admitted.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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It feels very urgent when it's a chemo drug, said Dr. Beth Riley, a medical oncologist and hematologist at the Brown Cancer Center.
A life and death wait for cancer medications in short supply 2011
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In September 1997, Hatfill accepted a two-year fellowship as a medical doctor and hematologist to study Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers at USAMRIID.
The Wrong Man 2010
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All parents and patients can reach a hematologist on a 24-hour basis by calling the main Hospital number at 215-590-1000.
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Before joining the NIH, he worked in New York as a hematologist at Montefiore hospital and as an immunologist at New York University.
Ira Green, NIH Immunologist Post 2010
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Harvey Alter, a 75-year-old hematologist who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, says the intensity of the XMRV debate took him by surprise.
Amid War on a Mystery Disease, Patients Clash With Scientists Amy Dockser Marcus 2011
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Bill Wachsman , a hematologist oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues have developed a Scotch-tape-like adhesive to remove dead cells from the skin for a sample of the genes that are active in skin cells in that region.
Researchers Create Better Ways to Spot Cancer Cells Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Inpatients are admitted to Children's Hospital and are seen daily by the attending hematologist and a hematology fellow.
Hematology 2010
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