geneticist

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scientist who studies genes.
    — In an ingenious approach, a team of 11 scientists – including biologists, geneticists, glaciologists, computer scientists and ice-sheet modellers – looked at the genetics of Turquet’s octopus – a species that has been living around the Antarctic continent for about 4m years.
  2. A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.
    — The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.

词形变化

geneticists plural

词汇关系

衍生词
archaeogeneticist cytogeneticist immunogeneticist neurogeneticist nongeneticist oncogeneticist ontogeneticist palaeogeneticist paleogeneticist phylogeneticist psychogeneticist

词源

Etymology tree
English genetic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English geneticist
From genetic (“related to genes”) + -ist (“person following a profession or interest”).
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