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epidemiological
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
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