life science

Questions about life science

What does life science mean?

life science means "any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms".

What is another word for life science?

Close synonyms include bioscience. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is life science a common word?

life science is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.