tropical medicine
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- noun
- /ˈtrɒpɪkəl ˈmɛdɪsɪn/
- Specialized
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medicina tropical
- Dr. Socolovschi is a medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the Medical School of Marseille, France.
Examples
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Other technical skills may come in handy, depending on your interests: international law, tropical medicine, accounting, etc.
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His research interests include viral gastroenteritis, vaccine-preventable diseases, and travel and tropical medicine.
Academic text (2013) -
We'll be looking at the idea of Tropical Medicine as a concept and its implications.
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With the rise of tropical medicine in the late 19th century and the development of new scientific and professional skills, the British themselves grew critical of their own early endeavors.
Academic text (1999) -
Dr. Norman is a consultant in tropical medicine and parasitology at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, Spain.
Academic text (2013) -
Services have been bolstered by visiting doctors—a German specialist in tropical medicine, Egyptian and German pediatricians, and Cuban surgeons and pathologists.
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Mark Wise, MD, specializes in tropical medicine, focusing on diseases that affect regions near the equator.
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The university has launched a new program dedicated to research in tropical medicine to combat prevalent infectious diseases.
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During her trip to Southeast Asia, she consulted an expert in tropical medicine to avoid local diseases.
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the branch of medicine concerned with diseases in tropical regions' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tropical' (pertaining to the tropics) + 'medicine' (the medical field). This adjective+noun structure follows standard productive patterns in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term tropical medicine comes from doctors who worked in hot, wet places near the equator, where insects like mosquitoes spread certain fevers. Because these doctors treated illnesses common in those tropical areas, the phrase now means the branch of medicine that studies and prevents those diseases.