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loimology

loimology noun: synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).

Noun

loimology (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).
    • M. Vien, secretary of the college of medicine, published a very complete Loimology.1802, W. Tooke, The Life of Catharine II, Empress of All the Russias, volume 2
    • The loimology of the future had for its object to discover what places and what times were favorable to each epidemic disease and what unfavorable, either continuously or for a time […]1914, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, volume 8
    Synonyms:
    epidemiology

Synonyms of loimology

Forms of loimology

alternative formlemology

Origin of loimology

From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ology.

Questions about loimology

What does loimology mean?
Loimology means synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).
What part of speech is loimology?
Loimology is a noun.

Words near loimology in the dictionary

  1. loiked
  2. loikes
  3. loiking
  4. loimic
  5. loimography
  6. loimology
  7. loin
  8. loin cloth
  9. loin eye
  10. loin eyes
  11. loin-girding

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