MEDICAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical science mean? 

• MEDICAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL SCIENCE (noun)

Meaning:

The science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("medical science" is a kind of...):

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical science"):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)

radiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the medical use of X-rays or other penetrating radiation)

serology (the branch of medical science that deals with serums; especially with blood serums and disease)

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

orthopaedics; orthopedics (the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints)

neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)