biomedicine

biomedicine
biomedicine i"o*med`i*cine n. 1. The application of the principles and techniques of the natural sciences, especially biology, to investigate and solve problems in clinical medicine. [PJC]

2. The investigation of the effects of external environmental factors such as weightlessness on the human body. [PJC]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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