epidemiologicadj.
/ˌɛpᵻdiːmɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/, U.S. /ˌɛpəˌdimiəˈlɑdʒək/ Of or relating to the study of epidemic diseases or (in later use) other health-related conditions occurring in a population (cf. epidemiology n.); = epidemiological adj.
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1862 Year-bk. Med. 1862 (New Sydenham Soc.) 97 Report on diphtheria in its epidemiologic and nosological relations.
1914 P. G. Wooley Clin. Hist. in Outl. i. 10 The address [of the patient] may be of value in epidemiologic studies of series of cases, for instance, of typhoid, cerebro-spinal fever, etc.
1966 Public Health Rep. 81 835/2 Requests for epidemiologic tracing of several persons with addresses in the area who have been named as contacts of persons with a diagnosis of early syphilis.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Sept. 58/2 Another thing that epidemiologic studies have established convincingly is that wealth associates with less heart disease and better health, at least in developed countries.
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