Term: preventive medicine: the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
Candidate hypernym: medicine: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries → 1
Candidate hypernym: answer: a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation → 0
Candidate hypernym: sewing kit: a kit of articles used in sewing → 0
Candidate hypernym: shyster: a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods → 0
Candidate hypernym: whizbang: a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits → 0
Candidate hypernym: margay: small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil → 0
Candidate hypernym: broca's area: the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people → 0
Candidate hypernym: words: language that is spoken or written → 0
Candidate hypernym: catcher: the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws → 0
Candidate hypernym: umlaut: a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound → 0
Candidate hypernym: charley horse: a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise → 0