| 单词 | epidemiologist |
| 释义 | epidemiologist (once / 19440 pages) n An epidemiologist is a doctor who specializes in the patterns of diseases that spread between people. Epidemiologists study things like the causes and treatment of lung disease, for example. If you're interested in public health or communicable illnesses, you might decide to be an epidemiologist one day. An epidemiologist might study the spread of a strain of the flu, or investigate the causes of a measles outbreak. Epidemiologist comes from epidemiology, "the study of epidemics," which has a Greek root: epidemios, "among the people." WORD FAMILYepidemiologist: epidemiologists+/epidemiologic: epidemiologically/epidemiology: epidemiologic, epidemiological, epidemiologist USAGE EXAMPLESColumbus Public Health plans to hire a part-time epidemiologist next year to monitor neighborhood violence. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) But she was able to reach an epidemiologist at CDC’s parasitics diseases branch. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) In 2009, the state Health Department implemented a way to ease the counting burden on county epidemiologists overwhelmed by thousands of investigations. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases Hyper medical scientist a scientist who studies disease processes |
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