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epidemiology
[ ep-i-dee-mee-ol-uh-jee, -dem-ee- ]
noun
- the study, assessment, and analysis of public health concerns in a given population; the tracking of patterns and effects of diseases, environmental toxins, natural disasters, violence, terrorist attacks, etc.:
Without the profiles gleaned through epidemiology, our health agencies would be at a terrible loss when something like COVID-19 emerges.
epidemiology
/ ˌɛpɪˌdiːmɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌɛpɪˌdiːmɪˈɒlədʒɪ /
noun
- the branch of medical science concerned with the occurrence, transmission, and control of epidemic diseases
epidemiology
/ ĕ′ĭ-ŧŧ-ŏ′ə-ŧ /
- The scientific study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
Derived Forms
- ˌ辱ˌˈDZDz, noun
- epidemiological, adjective
- ˌ辱ˌˈDz, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·····Dz·· [ep-i-dee-mee-, uh, -, loj, -i-k, uh, l, -dem-ee-], adjective
- ·····Dz···ly adverb
- ····DZ·· noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of epidemiology1
Example Sentences
“Big picture: There are multiple avian influenza viruses circulating so this is not horribly surprising,” said Maurice Pitesky, an associate professor who researches poultry health and food safety epidemiology at UC Davis.
Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, former post-doctoral fellow at SickKids, and the study's lead author.
I was going to have a career in teaching research epidemiology.
“In epidemiology, this is called competing risk, which is just another way of saying we have a large number of diseases that compete for our lives,” Olshansky told Salon in a phone interview.
Another is that the claim itself has fomented a surge of attacks on science and scientists that threatens to drive promising researchers out of the crucial field of pandemic epidemiology.
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