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)