Antonyms for preventive medicine


Grammar : Noun


Definition of preventive medicine

  • As in health care : noun health management
  • As in contraceptive : noun birth control method
  • As in hygiene : noun cleanliness
Example sentences :
  • In the years to come you will hear a great deal about preventive medicine.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Mankind » by Hendrik Van Loon
  • This is the age of preventive medicine, why not also of preventive crime and delinquency?
  • Extract from : « Being Well-Born » by Michael F. Guyer
  • These are questions which curative and preventive medicine have not yet mastered as might be desired.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 » by Various
  • Methods for treating it are given in "Preventive Medicine and Hygiene."
  • Extract from : « American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick » by Jane A. Delano
  • Preventive medicine simply means that our doctors do not wait until their patients are sick, then step forward and cure them.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Mankind » by Hendrik Van Loon
  • I believe in preventive medicine,” said the doctor, “and mending broken steps and removing banana peeling belong to it.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Doctor's Telephone--Told by His Wife » by Ellen M. Firebaugh
  • If preventive medicine means anything, it must certainly reckon with the comforter in the very near future.
  • Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague
  • Preventive medicine is in this sense truly State Medicine, and means protection of the people from their own ignorance.
  • Extract from : « Euthenics, the science of controllable environment » by Ellen H. Richards
  • In the allied science of preventive medicine a grant is advancing the study of snake venoms and defeating inoculations.
  • Extract from : « Inventors at Work » by George Iles
  • Preventive medicine including beverages, food, soil, clothing and habitation.
  • Extract from : « History of the Division of Medical Sciences » by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh

Synonyms for preventive medicine

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