epidemiology
epidemiology — noun
1. the science of tracking how illnesses start, move through communities, and can b
the science of tracking how illnesses start, move through communities, and can be reduced or stopped
Dr. Kofi Mensah used epidemiology to show that the water supply was the source of the stomach illness.
collocation: epidemiology + to show / used + epidemiology + to + verb
Students in the epidemiology course studied maps of last year's flu cases to learn how the virus traveled.
noun modifier: epidemiology course
Nadia and her team published a paper on the epidemiology of childhood asthma in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
Teams trained in epidemiology were sent to the refugee camp after the outbreak of cholera.
- disease tracking
less formal, describes the same activity in everyday language
- public health science
broader in scope, includes prevention and health promotion beyond just disease spread
文法句型
the epidemiology of + [disease]
用法筆記
Uncountable noun. Often appears in the pattern 'the epidemiology of [a specific disease]' to describe the study focused on that condition. The related adjective is 'epidemiological' (e.g., 'epidemiological data').