complementologist

English

Etymology

complement +‎ -ologist

Noun

complementologist (plural complementologists)

1. A person who studies or makes clinical use of complementology.
   • 1985, D. T. Fearon, Complement - Volume 2, page 237:

     I feel that books like these fill a gap insofar as up to now the complementologist had to collect his laboratory methods from widely differing books among which the classics of Kabat and Mayer and Weir are known to each of us.

   • 1997, Noel R. Rose, Manual of Clinical Laboratory Immunology, page 180:

     As more information becomes available about the cell membrane-associated complement components and receptors, additional applications for the clinical complementologist will become available.

   • 2007, Janos Szebeni, The Complement System: Novel Roles in Health and Disease, →ISBN:

     For this reason, as explained below, complementologist colleagues with neologist vein might find substantial reason to consider updating this deeply rooted misnomer.

   • 2012, . Whicher & S.W. Evans, Biochemistry of Inflammation, →ISBN, page 27:

     For the bacterial species it represents a virulence factor; for the complementologist it demonstrates the important role C5a and C5a des-Arg play in the inflammatory response.