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epidemiology

noun
/ˌɛpɪdiːmiˈɒləd͡ʒi/UK/ˌɛpɪˌdimiˈɑləd͡ʒi/US

Etymology

From Late Latin epidemia + -logy. See epidemic for more.

  1. derived from epidemia + -logy

Definitions

  1. The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts…

    The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.

    • Melzer and Luke C. Pilling, a research fellow in genomic epidemiology at the University of Exeter Medical School, have also studied the genetics underlying longevity.

  2. The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.

The neighborhood

Derived

ecoepidemiology, epidemiologic, epidemiological, epidemiologically, epidemiologist, geoepidemiology, immunoepidemiology, macroepidemiology, microepidemiology, neuroepidemiology, palaeoepidemiology, paleoepidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, seroepidemiology

Vish — recursive loop

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

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