general medicine

1. 1.

   the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)

   Synonymsinternal medicine

   Broadermedicine

Questions about general medicine

What does general medicine mean?

general medicine means "the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)".

What is another word for general medicine?

Close synonyms include internal 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 general medicine a common word?

general 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.