Meanings
alternative lemology
- obsoleterareuncountablemedicineSynonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).
M. Vien, secretary of the college of medicine, published a very complete Loimology.
1802, W. Tooke, The Life of Catharine II, Empress of All the Russias, volume 22 more examples
The loimology of the future had for its object to discover what places and what times were favorable to each epidemic disease and what unfavorable, either continuously or for a time […]
1914, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, volume 8Zeiss also elaborated on the connections between the collection of live cultures and his own epidemiological theories, especially his notions of geomedicine and loimology.
2006, Susan Gross Solomon, Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the WarsSynonyms: epidemiology
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).
Origin
- Ancient Greekλοιμός
- Englishloimology
From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ology.
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