epidemiology
nounHow to pronounce epidemiology:
Definition of epidemiology:
- epidemiology (noun):
- the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease.
- a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population
Synonyms for epidemiology:
medicine
Here are some other common 7-syllable words.
- indestructibility
- inimitability
- pseudo-intellectual
- elliptic-geometry
- comprehensibility
- underappreciated
- supernaturalism
- epidemiologist
- intercommunication
- lepidopterology
- mechanico-chemical
- pyelocaliectasis
- unceremoniously
- onomatopoeia
- maneuverability
- unconventionally
- unfamiliarity
- unidentifiable
- intellectuality
- unexceptionable
- unavailability
- editorializing
- archaeological
- unreliability
- coracobrachialis
- valetudinarian
- … more
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