Uroscopist

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A specialist who investigates urine samples to assess health conditions and detect diseases
2. An expert in analyzing urinary substances to diagnose medical conditions and evaluate overall health
3. A medical professional who examines urine to identify signs of disease and monitor bodily functions

Etymology: Uroscopy was once a central tool of European medicine. For centuries, physicians held up a flask of urine to the light, judging its colour, clarity and smell to read the state of the body. The practice goes back to classical and medieval medicine, and "uroscopist" is simply the person who practised it, built from "uroscopy" with the suffix "-ist," which marks someone who practises or specialises in a given activity. The word is a plain compound with no sensational origin: "uro-" comes from the Greek "ouron," meaning urine, and "-scopy" from "skopein," to look at or examine, the same root behind "microscope" and "telescope." Read literally, the word means "one who looks at urine."