medical specialty

1. 1.

   the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

   Synonymsmedicine

   Broadermedical science

   Narrowerallergologyanesthesiologyangiologybacteriologybiomedicinecardiologydentistryprostheticsdermatologyemergency medicine

Questions about medical specialty

What does medical specialty mean?

medical specialty means "the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques".

What is another word for medical specialty?

Close synonyms include 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 medical specialty a common word?

medical specialty 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.