English Explanatory Dictionary

exposome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A measure of the effects of life-long environmental exposures on health.

Word forms

exposome exposomes

Etymology

From expose + -ome, coined by cancer epidemiologist Christopher Paul Wild in 2005, see quotations.

Related words

exposomic exposomics
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