Slang coming from world of medicine and drugs, referring to a collection of new fangled technology and ways to do old fangled things.
proteomics (separate, identify, and measure proteins); genomics (analyze genes); metabonomics (study metabolism). Spread is inevitable: environomics, garbagomics, travelomics. Variants: -omic, -omics
by slickwilly March 7, 2005