epidemiologically
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- adverb
- /ˌɛpɪˌdiːmiəˈlɒdʒɪkli/
- Specialized
- However, interventions to reduce populations of small rodents over epidemiologically meaningful scales may be impractical and could cause indirect negative effects on the environment.
- epidemiologically linked
- epidemiologically associated
Examples
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So all of that implies also that epidemiologically it's different from a number of the infectious diseases we've studied.
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Distinguishing between POWV and DTV infection provides epidemiologically relevant information from a public health perspective.
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New ways of thinking epidemiologically about disease burdens grew out of this interaction.
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"Epidemiologically, baby boomers are hitting the age of 55 and older," he said.
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A person with a probable case had ARI that was epidemiologically linked to a patient with a confirmed case.
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A "probable" case was defined as an individual with symptoms compatible with a confirmed case who had traveled with the group to Ireland, and who was linked epidemiologically to a confirmed case.
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The following report describes a recent outbreak in which watermelon was implicated epidemiologically and microbiologically.
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In the fall of 1993, an epidemiologically defined sample of 678 urban first-graders was recruited from Baltimore and followed for 10 years.
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Mortality rates for smallpox and other diseases striking epidemiologically pristine Indian populations were appallingly high.
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The study analyzed how diseases spread epidemiologically across different regions.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
epidemiologically = epidemiological (transparent) = epidemiology + ly
The adverb is a straightforward -ly derivation from the adjective 'epidemiological', so its meaning is directly predictable from the adjective.
Etymology
The word epidemiologically comes from the parts epi- 'on', demos 'people', and -logy 'study', just like epidemic and biology. So, to look at something epidemiologically is to study how a disease affects 'people' and how it spreads among them.