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exposome

noun

Etymology

From expose + -ome, coined by cancer epidemiologist Christopher Paul Wild in 2005, see quotations.

  1. derived from espondre — “to set forth, explain”
  2. derived from expōnō — “set forth”
  3. derived from exposer — “to lay open, set forth”
  4. inherited from exposen
  5. suffixed as exposome — “expose + ome”

Definitions

  1. A measure of the effects of life-long environmental exposures on health.

    • At its most complete, the exposome encompasses life-course environmental exposures (including lifestyle factors), from the prenatal period onwards.
    • While the definition of the exposome includes all exposures that occur from conception throughout an individual's lifetime, an emerging concept is the need to also consider exposures prior to conception.
    • Every time we pant, or press, or swallow, we welcome into not just our delicate biology but into those cherished fables, too, the ecological influence of the exposome.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA