epidemiology
noun
Example Sentences
Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022 Andrew Lover, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sounded a more pessimistic note, emphasizing the threat posed by a new variant. Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022 Ned Calonge is an associate professor of family medicine at the Colorado School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. Ned Calonge, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022 Thomas McElrath, a maternal-fetal-medicine physician at the hospital and a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, told me that the baseline rate of preeclampsia among these subjects has typically been five to six per cent. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022 A few days ago, a university headhunter reached out to Elizabeth T. Jacobs, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Arizona, to gauge her interest in moving to a leading university in Texas. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022 In Virginia, the health department received 3,925 doses and 70 doses were administered as of Friday, said Laurie Forlano, deputy director of the office of epidemiology. Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 18 July 2022 Ring one included the close contacts of cases identified by the epidemiology team. Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 July 2022 Perhaps no single public health method is more prevalent than epidemiology, which uses shoe-leather data collection and statistics to analyze the incidence and distribution of disease between populations. Wired, 28 July 2022 See More Word History
borrowed from French, Spanish, or New Latin; French épidémiologie, borrowed from Spanish epidemiología, borrowed from New Latin epidēmiologia, from Medieval Latin epidēmia "disease affecting a large number of individuals, epidemic" + New Latin -o- -o- + -logia -logy — more at epidemic entry 1
Note: New Latin epidēmiologia was used in the title of a treatise by the Calabrian physician Quinto Tiberio Angelerio (1532-1617), Epidemiologia, sive Tractatus de peste (Madrid, 1598), a second edition of his earlier work Ectypa pestilentis status Algheriae Sardiniae (Cagliari, 1588), detailing methods to cope with a plague outbreak in Alghero, Sardinia, in 1582-83. The Latin word was revived by the Spanish physician Joaquín de Villalba (1752-1807) in his Epidemiología española (Madrid, 1802), a history of epidemics in Spain that was widely disseminated in Europe.
1850, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Medical Definition
epidemiology
noun
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