GENERAL MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does general medicine mean? 

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

1. the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

general medicine; internal medicine

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

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)