osteologist
IPA: ɑstiˈɑɫʌdʒɪst
noun
- A scientist or physician whose speciality is osteology.
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Examples of "osteologist" in Sentences
- It needs a surgeon or an osteologist and I'm neither. '
- Jack, give us the lowdown, he said to the osteologist Tom had called earlier.
- Project osteologist Jennifer Piehl takes a moment from her analysis to pose for a picture.
- While the preparation of skeletons for the cabinet is sometimes undertaken by the general taxidermist it is more often the work of a trained osteologist.
- It was a busy session for her as project osteologist because of the number of burials and contexts involving the placement of human remains found toward the end.
- My reputation as an osteologist was not at that time so fully established as it later became, but I already had some reputation in this branch of surgery; and one evening a very dignified Hindu gentleman sought an interview with me, saying that a distinguished native noble, who was
- Anatomists now declare that many of the bones are those of men, but this made no more difference in their healing efficacy in the Middle Ages than the fact that the relics of St. Rosalia at Palermo, famed for their healing power, have lately been declared by Professor Buckland, the eminent osteologist, to be the bones of a goat.
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