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biomedicine 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice
  2. the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel)
  3. a branch of medicine that is combined with research in biology
  4. A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation or surgery. Also called conventional medicine, Western medicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine and allopathic medicine.
  5. This is a branch of western medicine that focuses on the physiological processes using biology, chemistry and physics. This reductionistic view of medicine is important and necessary to understanding how the cells and atoms operate, but not how the systems work together.
  6. Western, or cosmopolitan, medicine founded on principles of modern science.