subscience
English
Etymology
sub- + science
Noun
subscience (plural subsciences)
- A scientific discipline that forms part of a larger science.
- 2007 September 11, Elissa Ely, M.D., “In an Age of Images, Teaching Pathology by Hand”, in New York Times:
- Neurology, after all, is a subscience of anatomy — the symptoms of brain disorders are directly related to the sites of lesions — yet many neurology residencies no longer require brain-cutting time.
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