Omics Definition
ōmĭks, ŏmĭks
noun
Analysis of large amounts of data representing an entire set of some kind, especially the entire set of molecules, such as proteins, lipids, or metabolites, in a cell, organ, or organism.
American Heritage Medicine
Any of the fields employing this approach, as proteomics or metabolomics.
American Heritage Medicine
suffix
(biology) Used to form nouns meaning a study of the totality of something; e.g. genomics, proteomics.
Wiktionary
Origin of Omics
From -omics as in genomics proteomics etc.
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
-oma + -ics, both ultimately from Ancient Greek
From Wiktionary
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