MEDICAL PRACTICE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The practice of medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

practice (the exercise of a profession)

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

family medicine; family practice (medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit)

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

empiricism; quackery (medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings)