EPIDEMIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epidemiology mean? 

• EPIDEMIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun EPIDEMIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

  Familiarity information: EPIDEMIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIDEMIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epidemiology" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Domain member category:

index case (the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study)

prevalence ((epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population)

Derivation:

epidemiologic; epidemiological (of or relating to epidemiology)

epidemiologist (a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases)

 Context examples 

A subdiscipline of epidemiology focusing on determination of causes and incidence of malignancies in children.

(Epidemiology of Childhood Malignancies, NCI Thesaurus)

Epidemiology studies looking at the role of dietary patterns, foods, and nutrients or other dietary components in cancer incidence and prevention.

(Diet and Nutrition, NCI Thesaurus)

In epidemiology, a rating scale for comorbidity.

(Comorbidity Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Epidemiology as it relates to infectious diseases.

(Infectious Disease Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Nutrition studies will usually be in the carcinogenesis, prevention, or epidemiology programs but occasionally are associated with treatment or rehabilitation.

(Nutrition, Other, NCI Thesaurus)

A branch of epidemiology that focuses on diseases and disorders occurring during the perinatal period.

(Perinatal Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Epidemiology focusing on exposures occuring as a result of one's work.

(Occupational Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Epidemiology studies to identify and evaluate environmental and workplace exposures that may be associated with disease risk.

(Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

A subdiscipline of virology focusing on aspects of human virology that directly pertains to virus-induced clinical conditions, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and detection, and prevention and treatment.

(Clinical Virology, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who works in epidemiology.

(Epidemiologist, NCI Thesaurus)