state medicine

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noun

socialized medicine.

Origin of state medicine

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First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use state medicine in a sentence

Preventive medicine is in this sense truly state medicine, and means protection of the people from their own ignorance.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment | Ellen H. Richards
State-medicine and sanitation have received an immense impulse.
Parasites | T. Spencer Cobbold
It is your grand state medicine, your veritable Doctor Sangrado!
Vivian Grey | Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

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