specific
Adjective
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also:
- precise - sharply exact or accurate or delimited
- specialised, specialized - developed or designed for a special activity or function
tells us about: generality - the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicabilitysimilar to:- ad hoc - for or concerned with one specific purpose
- circumstantial - fully detailed and specific about particulars
- limited, special - having a specific function or scope
- particular, peculiar, special - unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- particular - separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
- particularised, particularized - directed toward a specific object
- proper - limited to the thing specified
- unique - (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality
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similar to: specified - clearly and explicitly stated
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referred to in:
- 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
Noun
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is a type of: fact - a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurredsame as: particular
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is a type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
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