environmental medicine
- the branch of medicine dealing with the effects of the environment on human health, especiallythe physical, mental, and emotional responses to environmental factors.
- the study of the causes of disease in an environmental context, and the development of methods of detection, control, and prevention of environmentally related disease.
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Also called clinical ecology.
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