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41Medicine seal — Medicine Med i*cine, n. [L. medicina (sc. ars), fr. medicinus medical, fr. medicus: cf. F. m[ e]decine. See {Medical}.] 1. The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease. [1913 Webster] 2. Any substance administered… …
42Preventive medicine — Medicine designed to avert and avoid disease. Screening for hypertension and treating it before it causes disease is good preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is a proactive approach. * * * preventive medicine n a branch of medical science… …
43medicine — ► NOUN 1) the science or practice of the treatment and prevention of disease. 2) a drug or other preparation taken by mouth in order to treat or prevent disease. ● give someone a dose of their own medicine Cf. ↑give someone a dose of their own… …
44Science and technology in Colombia — refers to the development of scientific research and technological innovation in Colombia, and how these in turn affect Colombian society, politics, and culture. In spite of its current internal armed conflict and economic struggle there is a… …
45applied science — science that is concerned with the application of discovered laws to the matters of everyday living …
46pure science — science that is concerned solely with the discovery of unknown laws relating to particular facts …
47science and art — Science is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena both man made and natural. Scientific activities involve a large amount of study and methodology as when using the… …
48Medicine, History of — • Presents the history of modern medical science from its Greek foundation Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …
49science — 1. The branch of knowledge that produces theoretical explanations of natural phenomena based on experiments and observations. 2. An area of such knowledge that is restricted to explaining a limited class of phenomena. [L. scientia, knowledge, fr …
50Medicine in medieval Islam — In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine or Arabic medicine refers to medicine developed in the medieval Islamic civilization and written in Arabic, the lingua franca of the Islamic civilization. Despite these names, a significant number of… …
