sports medicine

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

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Origin of sports medicine

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby sports medicine

sportsdom, sport shirt, sports jacket, sportsman, sportsmanship, sports medicine, sportsperson, sports shirt, sportster, sportswear, sportswoman

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I’m either going to be an emergency physician doing a little bit of sports medicine or a public-health figure working for I don’t know what exactly.
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Local life in these places is not defined by their sports team or by their natural beauty—by things only available locally.
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Parliament of England ordered the Book of Sports to be burned by the common hangman.
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She would not join the groups in their sports and bouts, but intoxicated with her newly conquered power, she swam out alone.
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Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
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Barclay, in his tract on "The Vertues of Tobacco," recommends its use as a medicine.
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We knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.
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British Dictionary definitions for sports medicine

sports medicine

noun

the branch of medicine concerned with injuries sustained through sport

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Medical definitions for sports medicine

sports medicine

[ spôrts ]

n.

The branch of medicine that deals with injuries or illnesses resulting from participation in sports and athletic activities.

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