-omics
See also: omics
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From -ome (“whole of class”) -ics, both via international scientific vocabulary and New Latin ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Suffix
[edit]-omics
- (chiefly biology) Forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.
- Life sciences usage
- gene -omics → genomics
- protein -omics → proteomics
- metabolism -omics → metabolomics
- glyco- -omics → glycomics
- Lesser popular usage
- food -omics → foodomics
- culture -omics → culturomics
- token -omics → tokenomics
- Life sciences usage
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]-omics (plural -omics)
- Alternative form of omics.
