preventive medicine

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   the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease

   “the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine”

   Broadermedicine

Questions about preventive medicine

What does preventive medicine mean?

preventive medicine means "the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease".

Is preventive medicine a common word?

preventive 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.