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biosurveillance

noun

Etymology

From bio- + surveillance.

  1. derived from vigilō
  2. prefixed as biosurveillance — “bio + surveillance”

Definitions

  1. The monitoring of the biological environment, as for example to forestall disease.

    • “We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biosurveillance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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