- medicine (med) by Kyra Vasquez
... of disease and the maintenance of good health. the art or technique of treating disease without surgery. Two major divisions of medicine are academic medicine and clinical medicine. Some of the many branches of medicine are environmental medicine, family medicine, forensic medicine, internal medicine, and physical medicine. -medical, adj.
- Sigerist, Henry Ernest by Rylee Alvarez
1891–1957, American medical historian and writer, b. Paris, M.D. Univ. Of Zürich, 1917. He taught history of medicine at the universities of Zürich (1921–23) and Leipzig (1925–32) before coming to the United States. From 1932 to 1947 he was professor at and director of the institute of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. In ...
- proctology by Drew Tate
... medicine) A branch of medicine concerned with the structure and disease of the anus, rectum, and sigmoid colon.
- gynecology by Conner Black
... medicine) The branch of medicine dealing with diseases of women, particularly those affecting the sex organs.
- nuclear medicine by Keegan Ramos
... medicine) A branch of medicine in which radioactive pharmaceuticals are used for imaging or other diagnostic studies.