parasitologyn.
/ˌparəsᵻˈtɒlədʒi/, /ˌparəsʌɪˈtɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəsəˈtɑlədʒi/, /ˈˌpɛrəˌsaɪˈtɑlədʒi/ The branch of biology and medicine concerned with parasites and parasitic diseases.
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the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > specific organisms
zoophytography1735
zoophytology1815
parasitology1870
planktology1892
planktonology1896
micrococcologist1902
protistology1903
1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 84 A journal of Parasitology has for some~time been issued in Germany—that favored land of specialists.
1893 Times 15 May 7/1 The well-known Director of the Laboratory of Parasitology in Paris.
1948 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene (ed. 8) iv. 77 Infecting agents may be classified as bacteria, filter-passing viruses, fungi, protozoa, and metazoa. Their study comprises the sciences of bacteriology and parasitology.
1991 Univ. Maryland Graduate School Catal. 1991–3 113/3 The program is designed to provide broad basic training in a wide variety of subdisciplines of microbiology, including bacteriology, immunology, virology, rickettsiology, and parasitology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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