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Preventive Medicine
Definition 1
A branch of medicine that focuses on disease prevention. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease and the promotion and preservation of health in the individual. (NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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