protozoologyn.
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)zuːˈɒlədʒi/, /ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)zəʊˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌproʊdoʊˌzoʊˈɑlədʒi/, /ˈˌproʊdoʊˌzuˈɑlədʒi/ Biology and Medicine.
The branch of zoology which deals with protozoans; the branch of medicine which deals with disease-causing parasitic protozoans.
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protozoology1904
1904 19th Cent. Dec. 901 To establish..two new chairs, one for medical protozoology and one for medical helminthology.
1917 A. L. Whiting Soil Biol. p. iii Soil biology..includes the rapidly developing fields of soil bacteriology, soil protozoölogy, soil mycology, and others which may later merit study.
1974 Nature 3 May 89/3 In former times protozoology was considered to be a suitable subject by which students could be introduced to biology.
1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World vii. 133 Any protozoology or bacteriology or mycology textbook is filled with wonders that far outshine the most exotic descriptions of the alien abductionists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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