ecologic
- adjective
- /ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪk/
- Specialized
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ecológico
- Entomologic and ecologic studies will help determine outbreak potential.
- ecologic study
Examples
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Of the studies we identified, the only ecologic study that claims an association is of questionable design and should not form the basis of clinical decisions regarding a proposed association between thimerosal and autism.
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Although no spirochetes were isolated or identified, the ecologic and geographic setting suggests that the patient was infected with B. hermsii.
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This major limitation of ecologic analysis, known as "ecological fallacy," is well known to epidemiologists.
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Often researchers want to make individual-level inferences from group-level (ecologic) data.
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In addition, we fit an ecologic linear regression model to village-level data to estimate the association between the distance from the nearest site of documented conflict and the travel time to important social institutions, including a health facility, a primary school, and a goods market.
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First, the Kaldor et al. (3) study utilized the ecologic study design to investigate the relationship between exposure to air emissions produced by the petroleum and chemical industries.
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It can be used to support or suggest hypotheses regarding disease causation through the conduct of relatively quick and inexpensive ecologic studies using existing databases and easily computerized data.
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Ecologic and public health studies should be designed to evaluate the risk for infection by mimiviruses during wildlife conservation efforts and to determine whether surveillance systems can predict outbreaks by monitoring mimivirus infections in wild and domestic animals.
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The ecologic impact of climate change on marine life is a growing concern for scientists.
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Conservation efforts often focus on ecologic restoration to help revive damaged ecosystems.
Synonyms
940
3.7
Relating to nature and the things that affect people, animals, or plants
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3.5
Connected with living things or the science that studies them
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4.2
About how plants and animals live with their environment
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Relating to living things and how they work
Relating to how living things and their surroundings affect each other
About how plants and animals live in and use their environment
Connected with the study of how living things interact with their environment
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ecologic comes from the Greek word oikos, meaning 'home', which you also see in ecosystem and ecology. So, ecologic is about the 'home' of plants and animals and their relationships with the environment.