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exposome

exposome noun: a measure of the effects of life-long environmental exposures on health.

Noun

exposome (plural exposomes)

  1. A measure of the effects of life-long environmental exposures on health.
    • At its most complete, the exposome encompasses life-course environmental exposures (including lifestyle factors), from the prenatal period onwards.2005 August 15, Christopher Paul Wild, “Complementing the Genome with an 'Exposome': The Outstanding Challenge of Environmental Exposure Measurement in Molecular Epidemiology”, in Cancer Epidemiology...
    • While the definition of the exposome includes all exposures that occur from conception throughout an individual's lifetime, an emerging concept is the need to also consider exposures prior to conception.2015 December, Richard A. Stein, “The Naturome Awaits the Nurturome”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 35, number 21, page 34

Examples of exposome in a sentence

  • Every time we pant, or press, or swallow, we welcome into not just our delicate biology but into those cherished fables, too, the ecological influence of the exposome.2025 August 4, David Wallace-Wells, “You Are Contaminated”, in The New York Times:
  • The exposome is a measure of all the environmental or external exposures we face over our lifetime and the ways in which these impact our health.2025 August 14, Olivia Willis, “How does our environment impact our health? Unravelling the exposome”, in ABC News (Australia):

Forms of exposome

pluralexposomes

Origin of exposome

From expose + -ome, coined by cancer epidemiologist Christopher Paul Wild in 2005, see quotations.

Questions about exposome

What does exposome mean?
Exposome means a measure of the effects of life-long environmental exposures on health.
How do you use exposome in a sentence?
Every time we pant, or press, or swallow, we welcome into not just our delicate biology but into those cherished fables, too, the ecological influence of the exposome.
What part of speech is exposome?
Exposome is a noun.
What is the plural of exposome?
The plural of exposome is exposomes.

Words near exposome in the dictionary

  1. expositour
  2. expositours
  3. expositress
  4. expositresses
  5. exposits
  6. exposome
  7. exposomes
  8. exposomic
  9. exposomics
  10. expostfacto
  11. expostulate

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