She decided to study epidemiology, in the hopes of preventing a zombie apocalypse!
Source: tatoeba (7015375)
Epidemiology
//ˌɛpɪˌdimiˈɑləd͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "epidemiology" (38 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
14 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عِلْم أَوْبِئَة noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- epidemiologiya noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Bashkir
1 entries- эпидемиология noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Basque
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Breton
1 entries- reuziadoniezh noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Catalan
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 流行病學 /流行病学 noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Czech
1 entries- epidemiologie noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Dutch
1 entries- epidemiologie noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Finnish
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
French
1 entries- épidémiologie noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Galician
1 entries- epidemioloxía noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
German
1 entries- Epidemiologie noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Greek
1 entries- επιδημιολογία noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֶפִּידֶמְיוֹלוֹגְיָה noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Hungarian
2 entries- epidemiológia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
- járványtan noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Icelandic
3 entries- faraldsfræði noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
- faraldursfræði noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
- farsóttafræði noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Irish
1 entries- eipidéimeolaíocht noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Italian
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Japanese
1 entries- 疫学 noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Kazakh
1 entries- эпидемиология noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Korean
1 entries- 역학 noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- эпидемиология noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Latin
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Malay
1 entries- epidemiologi noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Māori
1 entries- mātai tahumaero noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Persian
2 entries- اِپیدمیولوژی noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
- همهگیرشناسی noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Polish
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Portuguese
1 entries- epidemiologia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Romanian
1 entries- epidemiologie noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Russian
1 entries- эпидемиоло́гия noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Slovak
1 entries- epidemiológia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Spanish
1 entries- epidemiología noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Swahili
1 entries- epidemiolojia noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Swedish
1 entries- epidemiologi noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Thai
1 entries- วิทยาการระบาด noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Ukrainian
1 entries- епідеміоло́гія noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dịch tễ học noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Yiddish
1 entries- עפּידעמיאָלאָגיע noun (branch of medicine dealing with transmission and control of disease in populations)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Kyle Patel, who was supposed to travel with a professor from the University of Georgia to South Korea on March 9, was excited about the coronavirus. "I'm pre-med and also public health. I study epidemiology, so I thought it would be really cool to be there at a time when this outbreak is going on,” Patel said.
Source: tatoeba (8586192)
The study describing how coffee consumption can reduce the risk of oral / pharyngeal cancer is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Source: tatoeba (12302507)
In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.