gender-specific medicine
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gender-specific medicine
Internal medicine A recently developed 'twiglet' of internal medicine that formally studies the relationship between gender and disease. See Women's health.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
gen·der-spe·cif·ic med·i·cine
(jen'dĕr-spĕ-sif'ik med'i-sin)That branch of therapy that limits itself to care of one gender or the other, usually in the care of gender-related illness or genetics.
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gender-specific medicine
Health care that pertains only to men or to women but not to individuals of both genders, e.g., those affected with diseases and conditions produced by sex hormones.
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