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medicine vs preventive medicine

preventive medicine vs medicine

medicine and preventive medicine both are nouns.

medicine is a verb but preventive medicine is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
medicine Yes No Yes No
preventive medicine Yes No No No
As nouns, preventive medicine is a hyponym of medicine; that is, preventive medicine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than medicine:
  • medicine: 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
  • preventive medicine: the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
Other hyponyms of medicine include alternative medicine, complementary medicine.
medicine (noun) preventive medicine (noun)
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 the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
punishment for one's actions
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
medicine (verb) preventive medicine (verb)
treat medicinally, treat with medicine
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