epidemiology
[ep-i-dee-mee-ol-uh-jee, -dem-ee-]
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noun
the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and with detection of the source and cause of epidemics of infectious disease.
Origin of epidemiology
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The sorry truth is that epidemiological studies rarely offer much good individual advice.
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The real difference is epidemiological, cholera nostras having no epidemic significance.
It is not only epidemiological science that tells us this, but also common sense—est modus in rebus.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)Charles Creighton
The rumour of London fevers seems to have reached Barker, who kept an epidemiological record at Coleshill.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)Charles Creighton
On epidemiological grounds the insects most open to suspicion are the lice, bed-bugs and fleas.
Handbook of Medical EntomologyWilliam Albert Riley
Epidemiological studies have recently been reported from Arizona and Connecticut.
Contagious Abortion of CowsWard J. MacNeal
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epidemiology
[ĕp′ĭ-dē′mē-ŏl′ə-jē, -dĕm′ē-]
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