epidemiology

English

Etymology

From Late Latin epidemia +‎ -logy. See epidemic for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ɪ.diːm.iː.ɒl.ə.dʒi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɛp.ɪˌdi.miˈɒl.ə.dʒi/, /ˌɛp.ɪˌdɛm.iˈɒl.ə.dʒi/

Noun

epidemiology (usually uncountable, plural epidemiologies)

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

Derived terms

• ecoepidemiology
• epidemiologic
• epidemiological
• epidemiologist
• geoepidemiology
• immunoepidemiology
• microepidemiology
• neuroepidemiology
• paleoepidemiology
• pharmacoepidemiology
• seroepidemiology

 

Related terms

• epidemic

Translations

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

• Arabic: عِلْم أَوْبِئَة m (ʕilm ʔawbiʔa)
• Catalan: epidemiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流行病學／流行病学 (zh) (liúxíngbìngxué), 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: epidemiologia (it) f
• Japanese: 疫学 (ja) (えきがく, ekigaku)
• Korean: 역학 (ko) (yeokhak)
• Maori: mātai tahumaero
• Portuguese: epidemiologia (pt) f
• Romanian: epidemiologie (ro) f
• Russian: эпидемиоло́гия (ru) f (epidemiológija)
• Slovak: epidemiológia
• Spanish: epidemiología f
• Swedish: epidemiologi (sv) c
• Thai: วิทยาการระบาด (wít-tá-yaa-gaan-rá-bàat)
• Vietnamese: dịch tễ học
• Yiddish: עפּידעמיאָלאָגיע f (epidemyologye)

See also

• epidemiology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia