epidemiology \ep`i*de`mi*ol"o*gy\, n. [Epidemy + -logy.] (Med.)
   That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and
   distribution of disease in a population, and uses such
   information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and
   methods for control of disease.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]

	

	epidemiology
     n : the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission
         and control of disease

	

	36 Moby Thesaurus words for "epidemiology":
   aerial infection, airborne infection, carrier, communicability,
   contagion, contagiousness, contamination, cryptogenic infection,
   direct infection, droplet infection, dust infection,
   hand infection, health physics, hygiene, hygienics,
   indirect infection, infection, infectiousness, mental hygiene,
   phytogenic infection, preventive dentistry, preventive medicine,
   primary infection, prophylactic psychology, prophylactodontia,
   prophylaxis, public health, pyogenic infection, sanitation,
   secondary infection, subclinical infection, taint, vector, virus,
   waterborne infection, zoogenic infection