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Definition of Internal medicine
1. Noun. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults).
Definition of Internal medicine
1. Noun. The medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Internal medicine
1. The speciality of the general medicine of the internal organs. In the Commonwealth, the specialist in internal medicine is called a Physician (in the us, an Internist). (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Internal Medicine
Literary usage of Internal medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty-one Lectures by Theodor Billroth, Charles Elihu Hackley, Alexander von Winiwarter (1883)
"Relation of Surgery to internal medicine.—Necessity of the Practising Physician
... The difference between internal medicine and surgery is in fact only ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"For the clinician, neurology and psychiatry must always rank as most important
chapters of internal medicine. Though they are, and laudably, ..."
3. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"So necessary is tbis book in the study of internal medicine that it comes largely
to this country in the original German. In view of these facts, Messrs. ..."
4. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1903)
"internal medicine, Chicago Pathol. Soc., Physicians and Therapeutic clubs; fellow
Chicago Acad. Medicine. Clubs: Press, 101. Author: Text-book of Materia ..."
5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"Dr. McClure published in the Archives of internal medicine for November, (1918,
xxii, 610) a similar metabolic study carried out here in this hospital in ..."
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