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medicine	Medicine is the science of how to treat diseases and injuries. Doctors study medicine to learn how to take care of sick or injured people. [1/2 definitions]
museum	A museum is a building where things that are important to history, art, or science are kept and where people can come to see them.
science	When people are studying nature or humans in a very careful way and testing what they believe about these things, they are doing science. In school, when you learn about science, you learn what people know about plants, animals, the human body, the earth, the stars, and other planets.
scientific	When something is scientific, it has to do with science.
scientist	A scientist is a person who works in or studies a science. A scientist learns about things in the natural world or in space by doing experiments or looking at things very carefully.
subject	A subject is one of the areas that people study in school. Reading, spelling, science, and math are some of the subjects that children study. [1/3 definitions]

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