What's the difference between scientist and toxicologist?
Scientist
Definition:
(n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(2) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(3) In cooperation with scientists in India and Nigeria, the potential yield of protein-deficient foods.
(4) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(5) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(6) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(7) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(8) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(9) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
(10) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
(11) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(12) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(13) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
(14) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(15) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Collaborations of epidemiologists and experimental scientists.
(18) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(19) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(20) It will pump nothing more than water into the air, but it will allow climate scientists and engineers to gauge the engineering feasibility of the plan.
Toxicologist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.
Example Sentences:
(1) A closer association between analytical chemists and toxicologists should prove beneficial to both and to the progress of science.
(2) Toxicologists recognise this and control age, body weight, disease and the physical environment of the test animals.
(3) It is important for forensic pathologists and toxicologists to recognize the potential of this unique specimen when routine specimens are not available.
(4) The roles of the pathologist and the toxicologist in the investigations of the fatalities resulting from the volatile substance abuse are reviewed and practical points are explained.
(5) Toxicologists have the responsibility of providing accurate scientific dose-response data based on experiments employing, among others, "practical" concentrations of pollutants or toxicants.
(6) Close collaboration between toxicologists and the authorities responsible for drawing up toxicological regulations is called for in order to ensure that the rules applied during the important and fascinating process of discovering and developing new drugs do not become unnecessarily burdensome.
(7) Toxicologists and pharmacologists called upon to testify in private litigation of whether or not exposure to a particular chemical caused an illness will have a clearer view of the law's notion of causation by the examples cited.
(8) The noninvasive in vivo capability of MR microscopy, with its high sensitivity to tissue water, allows the toxicologist to monitor the progression and regression of toxic insult in the same animal.
(9) Communication between statisticians and toxicologists which allow the implementation of such analyses can improve the interpretation of data resulting from repeated measures study designs.
(10) Examination by a toxicologist and neurologist revealed likely toxic encephalopathy with dementia and cerebellar ataxia.
(11) The researchers, who included toxicologists from King's College London, suggested the rise in popularity of mephedrone may be partly down to deeper trends affecting the illegal drugs market.
(12) A BP spokesman admitted that dispersant, which toxicologists liken to very strong detergent, is less effective if it comes into contact with oil that has already been in water for several days.
(13) For clinicians, toxicologists, and behavioral scientists, the steady contamination of the environment poses dynamic challenges for accurate diagnosis and evaluation of toxic exposure.
(14) The fact that the toxicologist in systematic toxicological analysis never knows what he is looking at but has to take into account a vast number of toxicologically relevant substances makes this field a very difficult, yet challenging task.
(15) For Nick Clegg, it happened last week, when he stepped back from his debate podium to address a retired toxicologist from Cheshire.
(16) For the past 20 years, the toxicologist has played an increasingly important role as an ombudsman of public-health issues; this new dimension of professional responsibility has almost frightening proportions.
(17) Awareness of the problem by practicing veterinarians and toxicologists, environmental toxicologists and public health officials is required to evaluate the impact of organic chemicals on the human food chain.
(18) Drug effects on myocardial contractile function are obviously of considerable practical importance for the toxicologist.
(19) This makes it a challenge for the clinical toxicologist to analyse and attempt to identify a toxic substance in the nursery.
(20) Haitian Voodoo priests control two major practices which might be of interest to toxicologists: healing and poisoning.