practice of medicine

1. 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 (synset 100613447)
   "he studied medicine at Harvard"
   referred to in: medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
   associated with:

   • group practice - (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources
   • quack - act as a medical quack or a charlatan
   • doctor - give medical treatment to
   • vet - provide veterinary care for
   • vet - provide (a person) with medical care
   • nurse - try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
   • administer, dispense - give or apply (medications)
   • transfuse - give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
   • digitalize - administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
   • bring around, cure, heal - provide a cure for, make healthy again
   • relieve, remedy - provide relief for
   • dress - apply a bandage or medication to
   • plaster, poultice - dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
   • bandage - dress by covering or binding
   • strap - secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
   • splint - support with a splint
   • operate, operate on - perform surgery on
   • venesect - practice venesection
   • medicate, medicine - treat medicinally, treat with medicine
   • medicate - impregnate with a medicinal substance
   • dose, drug - administer a drug to
   • dope, dope up - give a narcotic to
   • soup - dope (a racehorse)
   • salve - apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
   • bleed, leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize - draw blood
   • inject, shoot - give an injection to
   • infuse - introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
   • immunise, immunize, inoculate, vaccinate - perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
   • cup, transfuse - treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
   • ancylose, ankylose - undergo ankylosis
   • ancylose, ankylose - produce ankylosis by surgery
   • eviscerate - remove the contents of
   • diagnose - subject to a medical analysis
   • explore - examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes
   • feel, palpate - examine (a body part) by palpation
   • amputate, cut off - remove surgically
   • slough off - separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
   • eviscerate, resect - surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
   is a type of: learned profession - one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
   subtypes:

   • preventive medicine - the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
   • alternative medicine - the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture
   • complementary medicine - the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine
   same as: medicine

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