Occupation or Discipline
medicine Audio
med·i·cine [ med-uh-sin ]
Subclass of:
Health Occupations
Etymology:
Latin medicina = medicine. The related Latin word medicus meant a healer
Definitions related to medicine:
  • General term for health care, nursing, and medical practice specialties; see also the RTs treed elsewhere.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Refers to the practices and procedures used for the prevention, treatment, or relief of symptoms of a diseases or abnormal conditions. This term may also refer to a legal drug used for the same purpose.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (medical science) The science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Medicine, the practice concerned with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. The World Health Organization at its 1978 international conference held in the Soviet Union produced the Alma-Ata Health Declaration, which was designed to serve governments as a...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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