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Noun: preventive medicine
  1. The branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
    "the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine"

Derived forms: preventive medicines

Type of: medicine, practice of medicine

Encyclopedia: Preventive medicine

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