Definition of Family practice

1. Noun. Medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit.

Exact synonyms: Family Medicine
Generic synonyms: Medical Practice

Medical Definition of Family practice

1. A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Practice

family history
family home evening
family leave
family line
family man
family medicine
family men
family name
family names
family of orientation
family of procreation
family physician
family planning policy
family practice (current term)
family practice physician
family predisposition
family relations
family relationship
family restaurant
family restaurants
family reunion
family room
family rooms
family size
family therapy
family tree
family trees
family unit

Literary usage of Family practice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medicare and Graduate Medical Education by James Baumgardner (1995)
"Before 1969, official certification in family practice did not exist. Today, three-year residency programs in family practice are well established. ..."

2. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"After a careful elimination of Dr. Bright'! "family practice," I hare no ... family practice," I hare satisfied description of diseased and principles of ..."

3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Journal of family practice 31 (6):625-9, Dec 1990. Although many family physicians may discuss smoking cessation with their patients, few do so consistently ..."

4. Mental Health, United States, 1998 edited by Ronald W Manderscheid, Marilyn J Henderson (1999)
"family practice Physicians The availability of family practice physicians was ... Table 4 presents the distribution of family practice physicians by the ..."

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