family practice

family practice
family practice n a medical practice or specialty which provides continuing general medical care for the individual and family abbr. FP called also family medicine

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the medical specialty concerned with the planning and provision of the comprehensive primary health care of all members of a family, regardless of age or sex, on a continuing basis; see also family physician. Called also family medicine.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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