Meaning | The branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease. |
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Category of | index case | The earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study |
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prevalence | (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population |
Broader | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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Spanish | epidemiología |
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Catalan | epidemiologia |
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Adjectives | epidemiologic, epidemiological | of or relating to epidemiology |
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Nouns | epidemiologist | a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases |
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