Coronavirologist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coronavirologist is a noun meaning (virology) A scientist who studies coronaviruses.
Meaning
(virology) A scientist who studies coronaviruses.
Example Sentences
Evidently, this will be the major challenge for coronavirologists in the years to come.
As a coronavirologist, I am tempted to translate the eponymic prefix as ‘crown’ and confer the regal attribute to my favourite viruses.
Coronaviruses were declared a distinct virus group by Tyrrell and an international group of coronavirologists in 1968, on the basis of their appearance under the electron microscope after negative staining, ether lability and RNA content.
Before the emergence of the original SARS, the study of coronaviruses was a professional backwater. “There has been such a deluge of attention on we coronavirologists,” said Susan R. Weiss, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “It is quite in contrast to previously being mostly ignored.”
Word Forms
- coronavirologists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include picornavirologist, virologist, rotavirologist, coronavirosis, picornavirology, coronavirion.
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