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dietology

dietology noun: the study of diets (nutritional regimes).

Noun

dietology (uncountable)

  1. The study of diets (nutritional regimes).
    • Designing person-related probiotic strains and smart physiologic low-dose treatments in order to correction the gut microbiome is an important impact to personalized dietology and is a challenge for medicine of the future.2015 July 14, Rostyslav V. Bubnov et al., “Probiotics and immunity: provisional role for personalized diets and disease prevention”, in The EPMA Journal, volume 6, →DOI

Origin of dietology

From diet + -ology

Words formed from dietology

Questions about dietology

What does dietology mean?
Dietology means the study of diets (nutritional regimes).
What part of speech is dietology?
Dietology is a noun.

Words near dietology in the dictionary

  1. dietless
  2. dietman
  3. dietmen
  4. dietologist
  5. dietologists
  6. dietology
  7. dietotherapeutic
  8. dietotherapeutical
  9. dietotherapeutics
  10. dietotherapy
  11. Dietrich

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