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 | (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 |
punishment for one's actions | coming to full development; becoming mature |
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus |
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | |