EMERGENCY MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emergency medicine mean? 

• EMERGENCY MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun EMERGENCY MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medicine concerned with the prompt diagnosis and treatment of injuries or trauma or sudden illness

  Familiarity information: EMERGENCY MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERGENCY MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medicine concerned with the prompt diagnosis and treatment of injuries or trauma or sudden illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("emergency medicine" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

 Context examples 

Occupational medicine encompasses issues such as industrial hygiene, safety, pollution control, ergonomics, industrial and agricultural toxicology, disability evaluation, physical rehabilitation, industrial psychology and emergency medicine.

(Occupational Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)