biomedicine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The application of biology and physiology to clinical medicine.
  2. The branch of medicine that studies the effects of environmental stress on organisms (most often in space travel).
  3. A medicine created with the use of living organisms.

Word forms

biomedicine biomedicines

Etymology

From bio- + medicine.

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