Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
"EPIDEMICS" is a plural of: epidemic. |
Date "EPIDEMICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A period of increased prevalence of a particular disease in a population. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: EPIDEMICSSynonym: Communicable diseases. (additional references) |
Crosswords: EPIDEMICS |
| Specialty definitions using "EPIDEMICS": COMMUNITY-SERVICES-AND-HEALTH-EDUCATION OFFICER, Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic ♦ Disease Outbreaks ♦ emergency conditions, Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine ♦ Influenza B Virus, Influenzavirus C ♦ Sonne dysentery, Sonne-Kruse dysentery ♦ unusual conditions. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics. Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating the root causes of major epidemics. Credit: CDC. |  | EIS is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics. Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating the root causes of major epidemics. Credit: CDC. |
 | Since 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) has played a pivotal role in combating the root causes of major epidemics throughout the world. Credit: CDC. |  | Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics. Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating the root causes of major epidemics. Credit: CDC. |
 | Careful inspection at school prevents epidemics of diphtheria, measles, etc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Epidemics. : A Chinese Hospital device - pneumonic plague in Manchuria. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer epidemics / Opper. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Up to 2% in epidemics. (references) | |
Dengue fever occurs endemically and as periodic epidemics. (references) | ||
DEN-4 was introduced in 1981 and caused similar widespread epidemics. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | Under the 1996 law on foreign investment, a qualified foreign investor is provided guarantees against nationalization, except in cases of national emergencies, accidents, or epidemics. (references) |
Ukraine | This legislation stipulates that foreign investments in Ukraine are not to be nationalized, and state administrations have no right to requisition foreign investments, except for undertaking rescue measures in the case of natural disasters, accidents, epidemics, or widespread animal diseases. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | Such conditions contribute to the spread of disease and epidemics. (references) |
Indigenous People | Brazil | Due partly to the Government's failure to provide adequate medical care as required by law, indigenous people have suffered epidemics of malaria, measles, and tuberculosis. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EPIDEMICS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EPIDEMICS" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 131 | 27,855 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "EPIDEMICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | epidemi, sot (pestis, plague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | epidemie (epidemic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | épidémie (epidemic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Seuchen (epidemic plagues), Epidemien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | epidemia (epidemic, outbreak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 防疫 (disinfection, prevention of epidemics, quarantine), 防疫 (disinfection, prevention of epidemics, quarantine), 疫学 (epidemiology, the study of epidemics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうえき (disinfection, prevention of epidemics, quarantine, trade), えきがく (epidemiology, study of divination, the study of epidemics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epidemicsay борьба с эпидемическими заболеваниями (control of epidemics). (various references) farsoter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"EPIDEMICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emidemic, epedemic, epedemics, epicdemic, epidemeic, epiemic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EPIDEMICS" (pronounced e'pude"miks) |
| 7 | -u d e" m i k s | academics. |
| 5 | -e" m i k s | polemics. |
| 4 | -m i k s | aerodynamics, ceramics, comics, dynamics, economics, electrodynamics, ergonomics, gimmicks, hemodynamics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, mimics. |
| 3 | -i k s | acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, anorexics, antibiotics, antics, apparatchiks, appendix, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, avionics, ballistics, basics, batiks, beatniks, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, bishoprics, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, catholics, cervix, characteristics, charismatics, civics, classics, clerics, clinics, conics, cosmetics, Criminalistics, critics, cynics, demographics, diabetics, diagnostics, diuretics, domestics, eccentrics, econometrics, electrics, electronics, epics, ethics, ethnics, eugenics, exotics, fabrics, fanatics, forensics, generics, genetics, geometrics, geopolitics, geriatrics, graphics, gymnastics, harmonics, helix, heroics, hieroglyphics, histrionics, hydraulics, hypnotics, hysterics, informatics, ionics, italics, kibbutzniks, kinetics, limericks, linguistics, logistics, lyrics, Magnetics, mathematics, matrix, mavericks, mechanics, medics, metaphysics, metrics, microelectronics, micrographics, mnemonics, mosaics, mystics, narcotics, Nucleonics, numismatics, obstetrics, onomastics, onyx, optics, orthodontics, oryx, panics, paramedics, Pediatrics, Phenix, Phoenix, phonetics, phonics, photovoltaics, physics, plastics, prefix, prosthetics, psychics, publics, pyrotechnics, refuseniks, relics, reprographics, republics, robotics, romantics, semantics, semiotics, skeptics, sonics, specifics, sputniks, statistics, stoics, suffix, synthetics, systematics, tactics, Technics, tectonics, theatrics, therapeutics, thermoplastics, tonics, topics, toxics, tropics, workaholics. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-m-p-s" | |
-1 letter: epidemic. | |
-2 letters: impedes. | |
-3 letters: deices, demies, demise, espied, imides, impede, medics, peised, pieced, pieces, specie, spiced. | |
-4 letters: cedes, cedis, cepes, deems, deeps, deice, deism, demes, dices, dimes, disci, disme, epics, imide, imids, imped, impis, medic, medii, meeds, mesic, midis, pedes, peise, piece, sepic, siped, speed, spice, spied. | |
-5 letters: cede, cedi, cees, cepe, ceps, deem, deep. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-m-p-s" | |
+1 letter: spermicide. | |
+2 letters: spermicides. | |
+3 letters: misperceived. | |
+4 letters: epidemicities, improvidences. | |
+5 letters: predominancies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 50 49 44 45 4D 49 43 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .. -.. . -- .. -.-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010000 01001001 01000100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E P I D E M I C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0050 0049 0044 0045 004D 0049 0043 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395043383947433753 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
