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Medicine is the scientific study that concern with the protection and enhancement of human health and the prevention and treatment of diseases.

In its narrow sense, medicine is only about the treatment of diseases, but there is also the saying that preventative medicine is the first in medicine, clinical medicine the second and recovery medicine the third. The scope of science in medicine is about applying the fundamentals of medical theories and discoveries, for example in the field of: biochemistry, physiology, microbiology, anatomy, pathology, pharmacology, statistics, epidemiology, etc, to treat illnesses and promote health.

Yīxué shì bǎohù zēngjìn rénlèi jiànkāng, yùfángzhìliáo jíbìng wéi yánjiū nèiróng de kēxué.

Xiáyì de yīxué zhǐshì jíbìng de zhìliáo, dàn yě yǒu shuōfǎ chēng yùfáng yīxué wéi dì-1 yīxué, línchuáng yīxué wéi dì-2 yīxué, kāngfù yīxué wéi dì-3 yīxué. Yīxué de kēxué céngmiàn shì yìngyòng jīchǔ yīxué de lǐlùn hé fāxiàn, lìrú shēnghuà, shēnglǐ, wēishēngwùxué, jiěpōu, bìnglǐxué, yàolǐxué, tǒngjìxué, liúxíngbìngxué děng, lái zhìliáo jíbìng hé cùjìn jiànkāng.