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epidemiology
noun
Definition
The study of how diseases spread, who they affect, and how to control them.
In a sentence
“Epidemiology played a central role in tracking the spread of COVID-19 across populations.”
Synonyms
disease studypublic health science
Common collocations
- field of epidemiology
- epidemiological study
- epidemiological data
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