LIFE SCIENCE

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Meaning:

Any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms

Synonyms:

bioscience; life science

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("life science" is a kind of...):

natural science (the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life science"):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

biomedical science (the application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine)

biometrics; biometry; biostatistics (a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis)

craniology (the scientific study of the skulls of various human races)

dermatoglyphics (the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet)

dietetics (the scientific study of food preparation and intake)

eugenics (the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating))

cacogenics; dysgenics (the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced)

euthenics (the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions)

medical science (the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease)

Derivation:

life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)