PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practice of medicine mean? 

• PRACTICE OF MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun PRACTICE OF MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICE OF MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

medicine; practice of medicine

Context example:

he studied medicine at Harvard

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

learned profession (one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles)

Domain category:

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

Domain member category:

medicate (impregnate with a medicinal substance)

eviscerate; resect (surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ)

dose; drug (administer a drug to)

dope; dope up (give a narcotic to)

soup (dope (a racehorse))

salve (apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing)

bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize (draw blood)

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

infuse (introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes)

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

cup; transfuse (treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin)

ancylose; ankylose (undergo ankylosis)

ancylose; ankylose (produce ankylosis by surgery)

eviscerate (remove the contents of)

diagnose (subject to a medical analysis)

explore (examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes)

feel; palpate (examine (a body part) by palpation)

amputate; cut off (remove surgically)

slough off (separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion)

bring around; cure; heal (provide a cure for, make healthy again)

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

quack (act as a medical quack or a charlatan)

doctor (give medical treatment to)

vet (provide veterinary care for)

vet (provide (a person) with medical care)

nurse (try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury)

administer; dispense (give or apply (medications))

transfuse (give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to)

digitalize (administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects)

medicate; medicine (treat medicinally, treat with medicine)

relieve; remedy (provide relief for)

dress (apply a bandage or medication to)

plaster; poultice (dress by covering with a therapeutic substance)

bandage (dress by covering or binding)

strap (secure (a sprained joint) with a strap)

splint (support with a splint)

operate; operate on (perform surgery on)

venesect (practice venesection)

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

preventive medicine (the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease)

alternative medicine (the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture)

complementary medicine (the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine)

 Context examples 

The practice of medicine based on direct observation of patients.

(Clinical Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

An office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine, or dentistry shall not be construed to be an ambulatory surgical center.

(Ambulatory Surgical Center, NCI Thesaurus)