FAMILY MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family medicine mean? 

• FAMILY MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

family medicine; family practice

Hypernyms ("family medicine" is a kind of...):

medical practice (the practice of medicine)

 Context examples 

Each time we exercise, we are truly doing something good for our body on many levels, including at the immune cell level, study researcher Suzi Hong, a researcher of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, said in a statement.

(Just 20 Minutes of Walking May Reduce Inflammation in Your Body, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)