internal medicine

noun

1. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.

internal medicine

noun

1. the branch of medical science concerned with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of disorders of the internal structures of the body

internal medicine

1. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases in adults.

Word History and Origins

Origin of internal medicine¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology.

From Nautilus

He’s a doctor of internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

From Science News For Students

Barely vaccinated populations might be especially fertile grounds for vaccine-evading variants, says Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston.

From Science News

I went on to nurse practitioner school and began working in internal medicine with a focus on women’s health.

From Fortune

He’s a doctor of internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

From Science News For Students

But my internal-medicine practice had become totally unworkable as a mother with two young kids with severe learning disabilities.

From The Daily Beast

Pollack studied them and wrote up the results in the Journal of General Internal Medicine last year.

From The Daily Beast

Suchita Shah, 24, was applying for internal medicine and hoping, she said, for the University of Pennsylvania.

From The Daily Beast

For a doctor that truly invests, see Dr. Tina Dobsevage for Internal Medicine.

From The Daily Beast

The next man whom we must mention is one who did a great deal for internal medicine, pathology, and anatomy.

From Project Gutenberg

Cancer, likewise, cannot be cured by the use of internal medicine alone.

From Project Gutenberg

That a man is as old as his arteries is now recognized as an absolutely sure maxim of internal medicine.

From Project Gutenberg

The Compendium Medicinae of Gilbert is, of course, a compendium of internal medicine.

From Project Gutenberg

That graft in surgery and shystering in internal medicine exists no one in the medical profession denies.

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