Widely regarded as an umbrella term for contemporary medical research, biomedicine appears entirely self-evident—a word without definitional worry or historical baggage. In fact, however, while the neologism appeared as early as 1923 in Dor/and's Medical Dictionary-defined as "clinical medicine based on the principles of physiology and biochemistry"- neither this nor other specific hybrid meanings were much heard of before the 1960s when the US National Institutes of Health introduced the term to justify its diversion of funds into molecular biology.
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