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epidemiology (EP-uh-DE-me-ALL-o-jee)

A branch of medicine that studies epidemics (diseases that affect significant numbers of people during the same time period in the same locality). The objective of epidemiology is to determine the factors that cause epidemic diseases and how to prevent them.