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 | moral corruption or contamination |
punishment for one's actions | (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure |
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people |
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted |
| (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease |
| (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound |
| the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms |