sports medicine


noun
  1. a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.

Origin of sports medicine

1
First recorded in 1960–65

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British Dictionary definitions for sports medicine

sports medicine

noun
  1. the branch of medicine concerned with injuries sustained through sport

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