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-omics

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See also: omics

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From -ome (“whole of class”) +‎ -ics, both via international scientific vocabulary and New Latin ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Suffix

-omics

  1. (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

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -omics
catabolomics
cenomics
connectomics
culturomics
cytomics
degradomics
effectoromics
exposomics
foodomics
genomics
glycomics
hormonomics
immunomics
kinomics
ligandomics
lipidomics
mechanomics
metabolomics
microbiomics
modelomics
morphomics
museomics
neuromics
organellomics
panomics
peptidomics
petroleomics
phospholipidomics
phosphoproteinomics
populomics
proteinomics
proteomics
radiomics
receptomics
shovelomics
stroketomics
terminomics
tokenomics
toxinomics
transcriptomics
translatomics
tumoromics
unfoldomics
urinomics
volatilomics

Noun

-omics (plural -omics)

  1. Alternative form of omics.

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