Definition of Preventive medicine

1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease. "The medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine"

Generic synonyms: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventive Medicine

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preventatively
preventatives
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preventing
preventingly
prevention
prevention is better than cure
preventional
preventions
preventive
preventive attack
preventive medicine (current term)
preventive strike
preventively
preventiveness
preventives
prevents
preverb
preverbal
preverbally
preverbs
prevertebral
preves
prevet
prevets
prevetted

Literary usage of Preventive medicine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"preventive medicine. Generally the term "preventive medicine" has been regarded as almost synonymous with public hygiene, and its application has been ..."

2. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"preventive medicine AND HYGIENE WILFRED H. KELLOGG, Ph.G., MD, ... WILLIAM C. HASSLES, Ph.G., MD, Lecturer in preventive medicine and Hygiene. ..."

3. The Evolution of Modern Medicine: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale by William Osler (1921)
"... CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF preventive medicine THE story so far has been of men and of movements—of men who have, consciously or unconsciously, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Generally the term "preventive medicine" has been regarded as almost synonymous with public hygiene and its application has been confined to the operations ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... of a nature to be hereafter determined, in connection with the British Institute of preventive medicine, to be distinguished by Jenner's name. ..."

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