internal medicinen.
/ɪnˌtəːnl ˈmɛd(ᵻ)s(ᵻ)n/, U.S. /ᵻnˌtərnəl ˈmɛdəs(ə)n/ Medicine.
1. A medication administered or taken internally (cf. internal adj. 1b); †treatment using such medications (obsolete).
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1630 Certaine Statvtes Iustices & Officers of Peace sig. M4 (heading) Medicines Internall.
1721 J. Handley Mech. Ess. Animal Oecon. 256 In all Deafnesses, let the Head be carefully roborated, both by external and internal Medicines.
1772 J. Aikin Observ. Preparat. Lead (ed. 2) ii. vi. 104 That taste for simplicity which has wrought so great a reformation in the pharmaceutical part of internal medicine, has also extended its influence to external remedies.
1828 London Med.& Physical Jrnl. 28 Sept. 196 The only internal medicine she has taken during this period has been senna and salts.
1921 N.A.R.D. Jrnl. 29 Dec. 555/2 It is suggested that the retail druggist would suffer if tax-free alcohol were used in the manufacture of internal medicines.
2011 S. Mutsatsa Medicines Managem. Mental Health Nursing xii. 222 Separate locked cupboards should be used for clinical reagents, external medicines, internal medicines, disinfectants and antiseptics.
2. Chiefly U.S. A branch of medical practice dealing with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of diseases of the internal organs, esp. in adults.
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internal medicine1835
1835 Periscope Jan. in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 22 275/2 If a doctor of surgery wish to obtain the degree of doctor of medicine, he must be examined—1, in botany, physiology, natural history,..and semeiology of internal diseases; 2, in practical matters relating to internal medicine.
1871 C. H. Hackley tr. T. Billroth Gen. Surg. Pathol. & Therapeutics i. 2 It is inexcusable for a physician obstinately to stick to the idea of only practising internal medicine.
1955 P. Chayefsky Television Plays 93 Look, Marilyn..I want to be an internist, that's why. I like internal medicine. I don't want to be a G.P.
2010 M. Cooke et al. Educating Physicians i. 22 Residency training programs in primary care specialties—particularly family medicine and internal medicine—are having great difficulty filling the available positions they offer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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