MEDICAL PRACTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical practice mean? 

• MEDICAL PRACTICE (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL PRACTICE has 1 sense:

1. the practice of medicine

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL PRACTICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL PRACTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("medical practice" is a kind of...):

practice (the exercise of a profession)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical practice"):

family medicine; family practice (medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit)

group practice ((medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources)

empiricism; quackery (medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings)

 Context examples 

Various branches of medical practice limited to specialized areas.

(Medical Specialty, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Addresses geographic variability in medical practice in the United States and the medical and nonmedical factors that create this variability.

(Patterns of Care, NCI Thesaurus)

An educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.

(American Society of Anesthesiologists, NCI Thesaurus)

And I hope, also, he continued, sitting down in the rocking-chair, that the cares of medical practice have not entirely obliterated the interest which you used to take in our little deductive problems.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Identified data and samples coding offers privacy protection similar to general healthcare confidentiality in everyday medical practice.

(Identified Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

NCCAM awards grants for research projects, training, and career development in CAM; sponsors conferences, educational programs, and exhibits; studies ways to use proven CAM practices along with conventional medical practice; and supports adding CAM to medical, dental, and nursing school programs.

(NCCAM, NCI Dictionary)

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine awards grants for research projects, training, and career development in CAM; sponsors conferences, educational programs, and exhibits; studies ways to use proven CAM practices along with conventional medical practice; and supports adding CAM to medical, dental, and nursing school programs.

(National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCI Dictionary)