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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice;

2. the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

biomedicine \bi"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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

biomedicine n 1: the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice 2: the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel)