parasitology
- noun
- /ˌpærəˈsaɪtəˌlədʒi/
- Specialized
- After completing her degree in parasitology, she began working on research projects focused on malaria.
- Journal of Parasitology
Examples
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Mr. Platt had described a new species, Baracktrema obamai, and published the finding in The Journal of Parasitology.
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The conference featured a presentation on recent advancements in parasitology and disease control.
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An integration of parasitology and vertebrate biology, however, can give us considerably more information.
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Still, even the limited changes that are occurring now could have a big effect in some specialties, such as parasitology, that are important in developing countries.
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After studying microbiology, immunology, and parasitology at the University of Miami, Elizondo joined the US Army wanting to serve his country.
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Despommier spent twenty-seven years with this worm, becoming an elder statesman of parasitology even before he was elder.
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The Guarani medical specialists were brought together and given three weeks' instruction in parasitology, basic sanitation, nutrition, and infant rehydration.
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Dr. Norman is a consultant in tropical medicine and parasitology at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, Spain.
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Dr. López-Vlez directs the Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Unit of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital and is associate professor of medicine at Alcalá University in Madrid, Spain.
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Students studying parasitology learn about how parasites affect their hosts and ecosystems.
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
parasitology = parasite (transparent) = parasit + ology
The meaning is directly recoverable from 'parasite' plus the scientific suffix '-ology' meaning 'study of'.
Etymology
Parasitology comes from the Greek parasitos, meaning 'one who eats at another's table', and the ending -logy, meaning 'study', just like in biology. So parasitology is the study of parasites, organisms that live on or in another animal or plant and take food from it.