BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biomedical science mean? 

• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine

  Familiarity information: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("biomedical science" is a kind of...):

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

 Context examples 

AACR also fosters research in cancer and related biomedical sciences and promotes public education, science education and training to advance the understanding of cancer etiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment worldwide.

(American Association of Cancer Research, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences.

(Biomedical Ethics, NCI Thesaurus)

The interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science, knowledge, and techniques relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.

(Behavioral Medicine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)