2007-03-06 05:08:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Practice, in the older English language, did not mean only learning exercises. It meant getting experience. The term practice is used for the practical (and not so practical) application of many skills. We practice engineering, monogamy, magic, the dark arts, Catholocism, accounting, etc. So the use of the word "practice" for the working application is not restricted to medicine.
2007-03-06 05:23:18 · answer #1 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Practice is derived from "praxis", Latin and Greek for the process of putting theoretical knowledge into application, as in applying the knowledge of medicine into healing patients.
2007-03-06 17:06:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology and new information constantly change what scientists know and what they can do as far as medicine is concerned. For this reason, it is called "practice."
2007-03-06 13:19:59 · answer #3 · answered by puppyraiser8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋