PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease

Example:

the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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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