Xenomedicine

//zɛnəˈmɛd.sɪn// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The study and practice of medicine involving alien species. rare, uncountable

    "There had been people studying xenomedicine in the same class as the two of them who turned out not to have been particularly well fitted for it. Well, he thought, better they should find out in training, rather than in practicing on a patient."

Example

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"There had been people studying xenomedicine in the same class as the two of them who turned out not to have been particularly well fitted for it. Well, he thought, better they should find out in training, rather than in practicing on a patient."

Etymology

From xeno- + medicine.

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