-ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist






The scientific study of inanimate nature.
The study of bacteriophages.
1. A specialist or expert in balneology.
2. Someone who practices in the profession of balneotherapy.
1. The scientific medical study of bathing and medicinal springs.
2. The use of hot spring mineral water for healing or therapeutic purposes.

This is considered to be the oldest historic use of natural geothermal waters.

A specialist in the study of weight or gravity.
The study of weight or gravity.
The scientific study of brambles usually consisting of prickly shrubs, including raspberries, loganberries, boysenberries, and blackberries.
bibliologist (s) (noun), bibliologists (pl)
bibliology (s) (noun), bibliologies (pl)
1. A scientific description of books, book-lore; bibliography.
2. The study of the doctrines of the Bible or the study and the doctrines derived from it.
bioanthropology (s) (noun), bioanthropologies (pl)
A branch of study that deals with humans as biological organisms, including areas; such as, primatology, human genetics, human ecology, paleoanthropology, and other fields including identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variations, in fossil hominids, and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits.
bioarchaeology, bioarcheology
1. The use of a range of biological techniques on archaeological material in order to learn more about past populations.
2. A subdiscipline of biology that integrates the concepts of human biology with those of anthropological archaeology.

In bioarchaeology, one might isolate and amplify DNA from very old bones; such as, from the frozen body of the 9,000-year-old "Ice Man" who was found in the Italian Alps.
