Mapping the exposome

Language Log 2025-06-04

Summary:

More than 20 years ago, I posted about the explosion of -ome and -omic words in biology: "-ome is where the heart is", 10/27/2004. I listed more than 40 examples: behaviourome, cellome, clinome, complexome, cryptome, crystallome, ctyome, degradome, enzymome,epigenome, epitome, expressome, fluxome, foldome, functome, glycome, immunome, ionome, interactome, kinome, ligandome, localizome, metallome, methylome, morphome, nucleome, […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=69385&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-the-exposome

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/04/2025, 22:30

Date published:

06/04/2025, 18:10