Sondur Sriniwasachar (20 June 1922 – 25 April 1980) was a well-known

clinical pathologist Clinical pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, h ...

Hubli Hubli, officially known as Hubballi, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The twin cities Hubli–Dharwad form the second largest city in the state by area and population and the largest city in North Karnataka. Hubli is in Dharwad distr ...

in the State of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

Early life and education

Born in

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(under

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pre-independence India), Sriniwasachar completed his matriculation from 'The New English Medium High School' in the city of Hubli. After graduating from

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with a B.Sc (Honors) degree in

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and

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, he completed his degree in

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and

Surgery Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...

from

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, Madras (now

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) in 1947/48. After completing his senior residency he set up his private medical practice in Hubli city.

Career

He was the city's first clinical pathologist and held a post-graduate Diploma in the subject. Sriniwaschar was also part of initial faculty in the Department of Physiology of Karnataka Medical College (now

Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi (KIMS, Hubli) is a medical school in Hubballi, India and is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka. It is one of the oldest government tertiary heal ...

), Hubli, first as a full-time reader, and later as part-time faculty member teaching Bio-Chemistry (1959–1977). He was also instrumental in setting up the Bio-Chemistry Lab for 'Karnataka Cancer Research and Therapy Centre, Hubli (1977–80).' Early in his career he published a leading research paper on Cause & Pathogenesis related to Fatty Cirrhosis of the Liver. The paper was first published in Vol 6 No. 12, December 1952 print of the ''Indian Journal of Medicine''. Sriniwasachar continued his research interests throughout his life with a particular focus on cancers relating to the oesophagus. A voracious reader, his interests included dabbling in subjects as varied as

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and

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. And right till the end he continued his deep love for Physics and Mathematics. He also was a frequent contributor to the local language (

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

) magazine trying to educate the local people the nature, prevention and treatment of many medical problems common in that area. In 1967–68 he compiled an English-Kannada illustrated ''Dictionary of Science'' ''(Vijñāna śabdāvali)''.https://openlibrary.org/b/OL25212M/Vijñāna_śabdāvali This perhaps was the first time ever anybody had attempted to compile and publish an English to Kannada Dictionary of Science.

References

"Fatty Cirrhosis of the Liver – Cause and Pathogenesis" – By S. Srinivasachar, G.D. Veliath & D. Sundara Siva Rau. First published in the ''Indian Journal of Medical Sciences'', Vol. 6, No.12, December 1952 pp. 884–888. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sriniwasachar, Sondur 1922 births 1980 deaths People from Hubli Indian pathologists 20th-century Indian medical doctors Medical doctors from Karnataka