medicine (n)
practice of medicine (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 04
def 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
examples he studied medicine at Harvard
Outgoing links
Hypernym learned profession
Domain of synset - TOPIC medicine, medical specialty
Derivationally related form medicine → medical; medicine → medicate
Derivationally related form medicine → medicine
Hyponym preventive medicine; alternative medicine; complementary medicine
Member of this domain - TOPIC group practice; quack; doctor; vet; vet; nurse; administer, dispense; transfuse; digitalize; bring around, cure, heal; remedy, relieve; dress; poultice, plaster; bandage; strap; splint; operate on, operate; venesect; medicate, medicine; medicate; drug, dose; dope, dope up; soup; salve; bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise; inject, shoot; infuse; immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate; cup, transfuse; ankylose, ancylose; ankylose, ancylose; eviscerate; diagnose; explore; palpate, feel; amputate, cut off; slough off; resect, eviscerate
Incoming links
Derivationally related form medical → medicine; medicate → medicine
Pertainym (pertains to noun) medical → medicine; premedical → medicine; medicolegal → medicine
Hyponym learned profession
Hypernym preventive medicine; alternative medicine; complementary medicine
Domain of synset - TOPIC group practice; quack; doctor; vet; vet; nurse; administer, dispense; transfuse; digitalize; bring around, cure, heal; remedy, relieve; dress; poultice, plaster; bandage; strap; splint; operate on, operate; venesect; medicate, medicine; medicate; drug, dose; dope, dope up; soup; salve; bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise; inject, shoot; infuse; immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate; cup, transfuse; ankylose, ancylose; ankylose, ancylose; eviscerate; diagnose; explore; palpate, feel; amputate, cut off; slough off; resect, eviscerate
Member of this domain - TOPIC medicine, medical specialty
Derivationally related form medicine → medicine

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