internal medicine

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgeneral medicine

   Broadermedicine

Questions about internal medicine

What does internal medicine mean?

internal 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 internal medicine?

Close synonyms include general 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 internal medicine a common word?

internal 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.