Epidemiology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, computer viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
  • n. The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control of disease.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The science of epidemics; the sum of human knowledge concerning epidemic diseases.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    medical specialty    medicine   
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    pathogenesis    symptomatology    biochemistry    ornithology    phylogeny   
     
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