| preventive medicine | Medicine designed to avert and avoid disease. Screening for hypertension and treating it before it causes disease is good preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is a proactive approach. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| veterinary medicine | The medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| preventive | 1. Going before; preceding. "Any previous counsel or preventive understanding." (Cudworth) 2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. "Physic is either curative or preventive." (Sir T. Browne) Preventive service, the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. Origin: Cf. F. Preventif. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| preventive dentistry | The branch of dentistry concerned with the prevention of disease and the maintenance and promotion of oral health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| preventive dose | The smallest amount of any substance that will prevent occurrence of symptoms of a disease or the consequences of a lack of a particular factor in the diet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| preventive health services | Services designed for promotion of health and prevention of disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| preventive psychiatry | A discipline concerned with the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| preventive treatment | The institution of measures designed to protect a person from an attack of a disease to which he has been, or is liable to be exposed. Synonym: preventive treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abortion, veterinary | Premature expulsion of the foetus in animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| venereal tumours, veterinary | Tumours most commonly seen on or near the genitalia. They are venereal, most likely transmitted through transplantation of cells by contact. Metastases have been reported. Spontaneous regression may occur. (12 Dec 1998) |
| veterinary | Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school. Origin: L. Veterinarius of or belonging to beasts of burden an draught, fr. Veterinus, probably originally, of or pertaining to yearlings: cf. F. Veterinaire. See Veteran, Wether. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| veterinary drugs | Drugs used by veterinarians in the treatment of animal diseases. The veterinarian's pharmacological armamentarium is the counterpart of drugs treating human diseases, with dosage and administration adjusted to the size, weight, disease, and idiosyncrasies of the species. In the united states most drugs are subject to federal regulations with special reference to the safety of drugs and residues in edible animal products. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pathology, veterinary | The field of veterinary medicine concerned with the causes of and changes produced in the body by disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, veterinary | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of veterinary medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| surgery, veterinary | A board-certified specialty of veterinary medicine, requiring at least four years of special education, training, and practice of veterinary surgery after graduation from veterinary school. In the written, oral, and practical examinations candidates may choose either large or small animal surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |