subscience

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ science.

Noun

subscience (plural subsciences)

1. 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^[1]:

     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.