Epidemiology

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  epidemiology \ep`i*de`mi*ol"o*gy\, n. [Epidemy + -logy.] (Med.)
     That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and
     distribution of disease in a population, and uses such
     information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and
     methods for control of disease.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  epidemiology
       n : the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission
           and control of disease

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "epidemiology":
     aerial infection, airborne infection, carrier, communicability,
     contagion, contagiousness, contamination, cryptogenic infection,
     direct infection, droplet infection, dust infection,
     hand infection, health physics, hygiene, hygienics,
     indirect infection, infection, infectiousness, mental hygiene,
     phytogenic infection, preventive dentistry, preventive medicine,
     primary infection, prophylactic psychology, prophylactodontia,
     prophylaxis, public health, pyogenic infection, sanitation,
     secondary infection, subclinical infection, taint, vector, virus,
     waterborne infection, zoogenic infection