Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "family medicine" []

  • The branch of medicine that deals with provision of comprehensive health care to people regardless of age or sex while placing particular emphasis on the family unit. Also called family practice. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "family medicine" in a sentence
  • "-- The yellow poplar root bark in powders mixed with sweetning, is good for worms, and as a family medicine is not surpassed by any thing in my knowledge as a preventative of worms, for puny children and such as are frequently troubled with warm spells; it acts like a charm; it should be taken every morning in honey, sugar or molasses; a"
  • "They read medical guides such as Every Man His Own Doctor—“for Those who can’t afford to dye by the Hand of a Doctor”—by John Tennent, a Virginia physician, which had gone into its fourth edition by 1736, and every autumn they would organize an expedition into the woods to replenish the family medicine chest."
Words like "family medicine"