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tropical medicine

American  

noun

  1. the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.


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The effectiveness of Cambodia’s surveillance system can be credited in part to one man, Dr. Ly Sovann, an apparently unsleeping tropical medicine specialist who runs the Cambodian Center for Disease Control.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

“These are interesting first signals, but again they are only communicated in press releases,” said Marylyn Addo, head of tropical medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2020

“The south has the perfect storm of characteristics to just be a tragic region in terms of the Covid outbreak,” said Thomas LaVeist, dean of public health and tropical medicine at Tulane University.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2020

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, last week warned U.S. lawmakers against minimizing the viruses risk for vulnerable people.

From Fox News • Mar. 9, 2020

Subsidiary points of utility, such as the formation of the London and Liverpool schools of tropical medicine from 1899 onwards, were taken up by him with characteristic vigour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various