传染病学

傳染病學
chuánrǎnbìngxué
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 epidemiology (the study of infectious diseases — their spread, control, and prevention)

Examples

Tā dàxué dú de shì chuánrǎnbìngxué zhuānyè.
She majored in epidemiology at university.
Xīnguān yìqíng ràng chuánrǎnbìngxué shòudào qiánsuǒwèiyǒu de guānzhù.
The COVID pandemic gave epidemiology unprecedented attention.

Tips

usage
The broader, more modern term is 流行病学 (liúxíngbìngxué, epidemiology in the population-statistics sense). 传染病学 leans toward the clinical study of specific contagious diseases; medical schools often have both as separate courses.

Stroke Order

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rǎn
bìng
xué