(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | 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 |
coming to full development; becoming mature | punishment for one's actions |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
| the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |