epidemiology

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛp.ɪ.diː.miː.ɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɛp.ɪˌdi.miˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ˌɛp.ɪˌdɛm.iˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
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Noun

epidemiology (usually uncountable, plural epidemiologies)

  1. (sciences) The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
    • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:
      In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
  2. (sciences) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.

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