🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

ciencia médica

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sjensja medika

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Medical science/ˈmɛd.ɪ.kəl saɪ.əns/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La ciencia médica ha salvado millones de vidas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The branch of science concerned with the study of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and the maintenance of human health.

    "Advancements in medical science have significantly increased human life expectancy over the past century."
  2. 2

    The collective body of medical knowledge, research, and clinical practice.

    "Medical science continues to explore innovative gene therapies to combat hereditary disorders."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'medical', derived from the Latin 'medicus' (physician), rooted in the Indo-European root *med- (to measure, take appropriate measures), and 'science', from the Latin 'scientia' (knowledge), from scire (to know). Together, it emerged in the early modern scientific era to describe the systematic study and application of health, disease diagnosis, and treatment methodologies.

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