Medicine

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-007136",
  "term": "Medicine",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "The science and art of preventing, diagnosing, treating, and alleviating disease, injury, and promoting health. It encompasses a broad range of healthcare practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. This field integrates knowledge from biology, chemistry, physics, and other sciences to understand the human body and its ailments.",
  "subject": "Chemistry and Human Health",
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2007, 79, 1583. 'Explanatory dictionary of key terms in toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1631 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779091583)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/medicine/"
}