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单词 biostatics
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biostaticsn.1

Brit. /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈstatɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈstædɪks/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bio- comb. form, statics n.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + statics n. Compare later biostatic adj.1
With singular agreement. A division of biology concerned with the study of systems that are at rest or in equilibrium (as opposed to being in movement) or of structure as related to function. Cf. biodynamics n. 1, biokinetics n.
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the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > biology > branches of biology
micrography1658
micrology1848
biostatics1849
electrobiology1849
biotechnics1852
human biology1860
phylogeny1872
developmental biology1877
psychobiology1879
microbiology1880
biokinetics1883
bacteriology1884
geratology1884
thremmatology1888
cell biology1889
biophysics1892
biomechanics1899
pathobiology1900
biometry1901
biometrics1902
metabiology1906
bioenergetics1907
radiobiology1919
biomedicine1922
photobiology1923
virology1935
sociobiology1946
space biology1955
prebiology1963
chronobiology1969
glycobiology1988
1849 A. Smee Elements Electro-biol. vi. 58 (heading) Bio-statics.
1865 T. S. Lambert Systematic Human Physiol, Anat. & Hygiene i. i. 21 Anatomy, or Bio-Statics, treats upon the structure, viz., color, size, form, surface, position, and composition of living things.
1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 115 These may be classed (by a serviceable extension of the term Statics) under the heads of Biostatics and Psychostatics.
1938 Jrnl. Marketing 2 181/2 Beyond biostatics we find biodynamics arising as the study of active forces at work in living organisms.
1974 Jrnl. Biomechanics 7 190/1 Biostatics may be described as the study of biological systems which are in equilibrium and at rest (Example: The pressure distribution in the trunk of a tree).
2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 15 We were offered a biological model that dismissed the soul and stressed the importance of orgiastic relief from tension (biostatics and biodynamics).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

biostaticsn.2

Brit. /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈstatɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈstædɪks/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from German. Etymon: German Biostatik.
Etymology: Apparently < German Biostatik (1838 or earlier; < bio- bio- comb. form + Statik (late 17th cent.; < post-classical Latin statica art of weighing: see static n. and adj.), after biostatisch biostatic adj.2): see -ic suffix 2. Compare later biostatic adj.2, biostatistics n.
Now rare.
With singular agreement. = biostatistics n.
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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field
statistics1797
biostatics1851
biostatistics1865
statistical mechanics1885
Bose–Einstein statistics1928
Bose statistics1931
stylometry1945
cliometrics1960
stylometric1968
bibliometrics1969
macrolinguistics1972
1851 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 8) 135/1 Biostatics, statistics, medical.
1863 Home & Foreign Rev. July 343 Ethnology, biostatics (height, weight, average length of life, &c.), influence of external circumstances (soil, occupation, &c.) upon biostatical conditions.
1916 Monist 26 389 Considering Jewish biostatics as a whole it would seem to indicate that the Jews are physiologically and pathologically superior to their neighbors.
1934 Sci. Monthly May 435/2 ‘Adding machine biology’, some call it; others dignify it by the name of biostatics or biometry.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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