emporiatrics

emporiatrics
The specialty of travel medicine, dealing with diseases that travelers can acquire, especially in the tropics. [G. emporion, market, fr. emporos, traveler, merchant, + (techne) iatrike, medical art]

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em·po·ri·at·rics (em-por″e-atґriks) [Gr. emporos a passenger on a ship + -iatrics] travel medicine.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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