See Also: xenodiagnosis(medicine)

variationist (iou) and xenodiagnosis (medicine)


variationist (iou)



variationist noun & adjective. E20.
[formed as VARIATIONAL + -IST.]
A. noun.
A person who practises variation or introduces variety in something; esp. a person who composes musical variations. E20.
Linguistics. A person who studies variations in usage among different speakers of the same language. L20.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the study of linguistic variation. L20.

xenodiagnosis (medicine)


xenodiagnosis
<microbiology> A method of diagnosis based on exposing a parasite-free normal host to the parasite and then examining the host for parasites.