epidemiology

English

Etymology

From Late Latin epidemia + οlogy, from Ancient Greek επιδημία (epidēmía) + λόγος (lógos), from επί (upon) and δήμος (people) (disease upon people and theory). See also epidemic.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

epidemiology (usually uncountable, plural epidemiologies)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

epidemic

Translations

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

Arabic: عِلْم أَوْبِئَة‎ m (ʿilm ʾawbiʾa)
Catalan: epidemiologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流行病學 (zh), 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

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)
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

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