environmental medicine

environmental medicine

noun
1.
the branch of medicine dealing with the effects of the environment on human health, especiallythe physical, mental, and emotional responses to environmental factors.
2.
the study of the causes of disease in an environmental context, and the development of methods of detection, control, and prevention of environmentally related disease.
Also called clinical ecology.
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Environmental medicine is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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