preventive medicine

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• Preventive 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… …   Medical dictionary

• Preventive medicine — or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases,[1] (or injuries) rather than curing them or treating their symptoms. The term contrasts in method with curative and palliative medicine, and in scope with public health methods… …   Wikipedia

• preventive medicine — 1. the branch of medical science that deals with prevention of disease. 2. a medication or other agent used for prophylaxis. [1760 70] * * * Efforts toward disease prevention in the community and the individual. It covers patient interviews and… …   Universalium

• preventive medicine — noun the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease (Freq. 1) the medical establishment doesn t profit from preventive medicine • Hypernyms: ↑medicine, ↑practice of medicine * * * noun : a branch of medical science dealing with methods… …   Useful english dictionary

• preventive medicine — The anticipation, communication, prediction, identification, prevention, education, risk assessment, and control of communicable diseases, illnesses and exposure to endemic, occupational, and environmental threats. These threats include nonbattle …   Military dictionary

• preventive medicine — pre.ventive medicine n [U] medical treatment, advice, and health education that is designed to prevent disease happening rather than cure it …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• preventive medicine — pre,ventive medicine noun uncount medical examinations, treatments, advice, etc. intended to prevent illness or discover it before it becomes serious …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• preventive medicine — the branch of medicine whose main aim is the prevention of disease. This is a wide field, in which workers tackle problems ranging from the immunization of persons against infectious diseases, such as diphtheria or whooping cough, to finding… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• preventive medicine — methods of treatment taken in order to prevent in advance the appearance of the disease in the future …   English contemporary dictionary

• preventive medicine — UK / US noun [uncountable] medical examinations, treatments, advice etc intended to prevent illness or discover it before it becomes serious …   English dictionary