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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
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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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