noun
the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
adjective
epidemiological
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Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations.
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Epidemiology helps us understand how diseases spread and affect different groups of people.
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Epidemiology is like detective work for tracking down how illnesses are passed around.
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In a way, epidemiology is like mapping out the highways of disease transmission in a population.