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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preventive medicine mean?
• PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (noun)
The noun PREVENTIVE MEDICINE has 1 sense:
1. the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
Familiarity information: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine
Hypernyms ("preventive medicine" is a kind of...):
medicine; practice of medicine (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)
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