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epidemiology - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

epidemiology (usually uncountable, plural epidemiologies)

• (sciences) The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
  • ✤ 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.¹
  • ✤ 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
• (sciences) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌɛpɪdiːmiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA: /ˌɛpɪˌdimiˈɑləd͡ʒi/, /ˌɛpɪˌdɛm-/
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Footnotes

1. 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist ‎${}^{[1]}$, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, retrieved 9 May 2013, page 64: ↩

2. 2018 November 6, Susan Scutti, “Your Grandma may be old, but that doesn’t mean you will be, researchers say”, in CNN ‎${}^{[2]}$: ↩

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