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internal medicine

noun

  1. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.


internal medicine

noun

  1. the branch of medical science concerned with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of disorders of the internal structures of the body
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internal medicine

  1. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases in adults.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of internal medicine1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology.

He’s a doctor of internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

Barely vaccinated populations might be especially fertile grounds for vaccine-evading variants, says Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston.

I went on to nurse practitioner school and began working in internal medicine with a focus on women’s health.

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He’s a doctor of internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

But my internal-medicine practice had become totally unworkable as a mother with two young kids with severe learning disabilities.

Pollack studied them and wrote up the results in the Journal of General Internal Medicine last year.

Suchita Shah, 24, was applying for internal medicine and hoping, she said, for the University of Pennsylvania.

For a doctor that truly invests, see Dr. Tina Dobsevage for Internal Medicine.

The next man whom we must mention is one who did a great deal for internal medicine, pathology, and anatomy.

Cancer, likewise, cannot be cured by the use of internal medicine alone.

That a man is as old as his arteries is now recognized as an absolutely sure maxim of internal medicine.

The Compendium Medicinae of Gilbert is, of course, a compendium of internal medicine.

That graft in surgery and shystering in internal medicine exists no one in the medical profession denies.

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