Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun preventive_medicine

1 sense of preventive medicine

Sense 1
preventive medicine -- (the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease; "the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine")
       => medicine, practice of medicine -- (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; "he studied medicine at Harvard")