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preventive medicine vs medicine

medicine vs preventive medicine

preventive medicine and medicine both are nouns.

preventive medicine is not a verb while medicine is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
preventive medicine Yes No No No
medicine Yes No Yes No
As nouns, medicine is a hypernym of preventive medicine; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than preventive medicine:
  • preventive medicine: the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
  • 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
Other hypernyms of preventive medicine include practice of medicine.
preventive medicine (noun) medicine (noun)
the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease 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
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
preventive medicine (verb) medicine (verb)
treat medicinally, treat with medicine
Difference between preventive medicine and medicine

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