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infectiology

infectiology noun: the study of infection.

Noun

infectiology (uncountable)

  1. The study of infection
    • We describe here a novel approach to infectiology for salmonid fish where blood samples are collected repeatedly in a small group of PIT-tagged animals.2015 September 24, “Individual Monitoring of Immune Response in Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar following Experimental Infection with Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus (ISAV)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of infectiology

alternative forminfectology

Origin of infectiology

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms, from infection + -ology; being ISV, the word is cognate with French infectiologie, but in English the usual name of the medical specialty is infectious disease or infectious diseases.

Words formed from infectiology

Questions about infectiology

What does infectiology mean?
Infectiology means the study of infection.
What part of speech is infectiology?
Infectiology is a noun.

Words near infectiology in the dictionary

  1. infecting
  2. infectiologic
  3. infectiological
  4. infectiologist
  5. infectiologists
  6. infectiology
  7. infection
  8. infectional
  9. infectionism
  10. infectionist
  11. infectionists

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