family practice

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfamily medicine

   Broadermedical practice

Questions about family practice

What does family practice mean?

family practice 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 practice?

Close synonyms include family medicine. 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 practice a common word?

family practice 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.