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The branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
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epidemiology
Word definitions for epidemiology in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"study of epidemics, science of epidemic diseases," 1850, from Greek epidemios , literally "among the people, of one's countrymen at home" (see epidemic ) + -logy . Related: Epidemiological ; epidemiologist .
Wikipedia
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" Epidemiology " is the sixth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series Community , and the 31st episode of the series overall. It originally premiered in the United States on NBC on October 28, 2010 as a special Halloween -themed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sciences English) The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems. 2 (context sciences English) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Emerging objectives and methods in epidemiology . ▪ Goffman's curves fitted very well to those derived by differential equations validated in epidemiology . ▪ Prior to the hepatitis B outbreak, most public health officials had ...
WordNet
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n. the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
epidemiology \ep`i*de`mi*ol"o*gy\, n. [Epidemy + -logy.] (Med.) 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 ...
Usage examples of epidemiology.
Yuri Lemingov was transferred out of the epidemiology section of our institute and assigned to a lengthy study of hospital-acquired infection in a treatment facility in St.
Thus, in her first three issues, the Oracular Vulva delivered disquisitions on the erotic art of the Japanese painter Hiroshi Yamamoto, the epidemiology of syphilis, and the sex life of St.
Jake Weiss, chief of the epidemiology department, stood in the doorway.
On her way to the hospital for an early epidemiology departmental conference, she checked out the neighborhood, but Ray was still a no-show.
American Journal of Epidemiology was able to show that by using the exact same methodology, smoking saves 277,621 lives each year.
These trained doctors, nurses, and paramedical technicians, and engaged in continuous research on each planet into local diseases, local materia medica, parasitology, epidemiology, toxicology, and a variety of other topics in public health.
In particular, epidemiology, the science of drawing inferences about human diseases by comparing groups of people (often by retrospective historical studies), has for a long time successfully employed formalized procedures for dealing with problems similar to those facing historians of human societies.
They are already armed with much knowledge: of the scientific method, the germ theory, statistics, epidemiology and even the nature of the enemies they are fighting.
Before, the epidemiology was that of vertical transmission, as in Huntington's Chorea.
Epidemiology was the medical profession's version of accounting, and as that dull profession was vital to running a business, so the study of diseases and how they spread was actually the mother of modern medicine, when in the 1830s a French physician had determined that people who became ill died or recovered at the same rate whether they were treated or not.