Dictionary Home »
Dictionary Definitions » epidemiologic
epidemiologic
Variant of epidemiology
noun
- the branch of medicine that investigates the causes and control of epidemics
- all the elements contributing to the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a disease in a population; ecology of a disease
Related Forms:
- epidemiologic adjective or epidemiological
- epidemiologist noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.