Medicine aims toward restoring, maintaining, and improving human health, and engineering aims toward restoring, maintaining and improving human wellness. Both disciplines apply knowledge from science and technology at large to accomplish such objectives. Bioengineering, also called biomedical engineering, is defined as the application of engineering principles and techniques to problems in medicine and biology (always with restoration, maintenance, and improvement in mind), which now also includes veterinary medicine, and the environment in general.

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身体康复：历史回顾

医学旨在恢复、维持和改善人类健康，而工程学旨在恢复、维持和改善人类健康。这两门学科都广泛应用科学和技术知识来实现​​这些目标。生物工程，也称为生物医学工程，被定义为将工程原理和技术应用于医学和生物学问题（始终考虑恢复、维护和改进），现在还包括兽医学和一般环境。