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epidemiology

epidemiology

English

Noun

epidemiology ‎(usually uncountable, plural epidemiologies)

(sciences) The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
(sciences) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.

Derived terms

Related terms

epidemic

See also

epidemiology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations

Arabic: عِلْم أَوْبِئَة m ‎(ʿilm ʾawbiʾa)
Catalan: epidemiologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流行病學 (zh), 流行病学 (zh) ‎(liúxíngbìngxué)
Czech: epidemiologie f
Finnish: epidemiologia (fi)
French: épidémiologie (fr) f
German: Epidemiologie (de) f
Greek: επιδημιολογία (el) f ‎(epidimiología)
Hebrew: אֶפִּידֶמְיוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f ‎(epidemiologiya)

Icelandic: faraldsfræði f, faraldursfræði f, farsóttafræði f
Irish: eipidéimeolaíocht f
Italian: epidemiologia (it) f
Japanese: 疫学 (ja) ‎(えきがく, ekigaku)
Korean: 역학 (ko) ‎(yeokhak)
Portuguese: epidemiologia (pt) f
Romanian: epidemiologie (ro) f
Russian: эпидемиоло́гия (ru) f ‎(epidemiológija)
Spanish: epidemiología f
Swedish: epidemiologi (sv) c
Thai: วิทยาการระบาด ‎(wít-tá-yaa-gaan-rá-bàat)
Yiddish: עפּידעמיאָלאָגיע f ‎(epidemyologye)