• Question: what do the following study: scatologist? cosmetologist? fromologist? toxicologist? spelologist? pyrologist? and a gelotologist?

    Asked by lilyx to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by pricee.
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      Mark Fogg answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      In order
      Skinny cats…. OK then, Poo
      make-up
      A french cheese seller???
      I know this one, the study of adverse chemicals on the body
      Study of caves
      The study of heat
      Study of ice cream…no?…laughter than

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      Panos Soultanas answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Hello lilly,

      being Greek I know that all of these words are of Greek origin. The Greek meanings are:

      Toxic (bad/harmful)
      Speleo (cave)
      pyro (fire)
      gelio (laughter)
      scato (poo)
      cosmetic (beauty)

      I have not heard of fromology. The closest to this is phrenology which is again a Greek word phrena (mind).

      It helps with scientific definitions being a Greek…!

      🙂

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      Mark Travis answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Right……..

      scatologist = poo
      cosmetologist = beauty specialist
      fromologist = cheese
      toxicologist = adverse effects of chemcials on living organsisms
      spelologist = caves and underground places
      pyrologist = science of heat
      gelotologist = laugther

      You learn something new every day……

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Ohhh right…thought the power of dictionaries and google
      spelologist caves
      Scatologist faeces

      cosmetologist beauty treatments

      fromologist not so much study as collect cheese labels…which i guess are the labels from packets of cheese not actually labels made of cheese..

      toxicologist toxins and posions and the effect they have on cells
      pyrologist heat
      gelotologist laughter..how cool was this question

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    lilyx commented on :

    thankyou very much… i asked you these questions because our teacher made us a what scientist are you? and i had put down all of these so i guess ima good scientist 🙂 THANKYOU:D