family medicine

1. 1.

   medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit

   Synonymsfamily practice

   Broadermedical practice

Questions about family medicine

What does family medicine mean?

family medicine means "medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit".

What is another word for family medicine?

Close synonyms include family practice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family medicine a common word?

family medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.