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 | (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus) |
punishment for one's actions | a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol |
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | |
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | |