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medicine
(medsən, US medɪsɪn)
Word forms: plural medicines
1. uncountable noun
Medicine is the treatment of illness and injuries by doctors and nurses.
He pursued a career in medicine.
I was interested in alternative medicine and becoming an aromatherapist.
Psychiatry is an accepted branch of medicine.
2. variable noun
Medicine is a substance that you drink or swallow in order to cure an illness.
People in hospitals are dying because of shortage of medicine.
...herbal medicines.
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medicine in British English
(ˈmɛdɪsɪn, ˈmɛdsɪn)
noun
1.
any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
2.
the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
3.
any nonsurgical branch of medical science
4.
the practice or profession of medicine
he's in medicine
▶ Related adjectives: Aesculapian, iatric 5.
something regarded by primitive people as having magical or remedial properties
6. take one's medicine
7. a taste of one's own medicine
Word origin
C13: via Old French from Latin medicīna (ars) (art of) healing, from medicus doctor, from medērī to healmedicine in American English
(ˈmedəsɪn, esp. Brit. ˈmedsən) (verb -cined, -cining)
noun
1.
any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy
2.
the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipulations: often divided into medicine proper, surgery, and obstetrics
3.
the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics
4.
the medical profession
5. (among Native Americans)
any object or practice regarded as having magical powers
6. See give someone a dose of his or her own medicine
7. See take one's medicine
transitive verb
8.
to administer medicine to
Word origin
[1175–1225; ME medicin ‹ L medicīna (ars) healing (art), fem. of medicīnus pertaining to a physician. See medical, -ine1]More idioms containingmedicine
give someone a taste of their own medicine
COBUILD Collocationsmedicine
life-saving medicine
modern medicine
orthodox medicine
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Examples of 'medicine' in a sentencemedicine
Quotations
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magicThe Second Skin
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseasesLe Malade Imaginaire
In other languagesmedicine
British English: medicine /ˈmɛdɪsɪn; ˈmɛdsɪn/ NOUN
Medicine is the treatment of illness and injuries by doctors and nurses.
He pursued a career in medicine.
- American English: medicine
- Arabic: دَوَاءٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: medicina
- Chinese: 药
- Croatian: medicina
- Czech: lék
- Danish: medicin
- Dutch: geneeskunde
- European Spanish: medicina
- Finnish: lääke
- French: médicament
- German: Medizin
- Greek: φάρμακο
- Italian: medicina
- Japanese: 薬
- Korean: 약
- Norwegian: medisin
- Polish: medycyna
- European Portuguese: medicina
- Romanian: medicină
- Russian: лечение
- Latin American Spanish: medicina
- Swedish: medicin
- Thai: ยา
- Turkish: ilaç
- Ukrainian: медицина
- Vietnamese: y học
Chinese translation of 'medicine'
medicine
(ˈmɛdsɪn)
n
- (u) (= science)
医(醫)学(學)
(yīxué) - (c/u) (= medication)
药(藥)
(yào) (种(種), zhǒng)
(noun)
Definition
any substance used in treating or alleviating the symptoms of disease
herbal medicines
Synonyms
remedy
natural remedies to overcome winter infections
drug
The drug will treat those infected.
cure
There is still no cure for the common cold.
prescription
I'm not sleeping, even with that new prescription the doctor gave me.
medication
She stopped taking the prescribed medication.
nostrum
Supermarket shelves are lined with nostrums claiming to alleviate flu symptoms.
physic
medicament
related words
related adjectives Aesculapianiatric
related mania pharmacomania
subject word lists
Quotations
Additional synonyms
in the sense of cure
Definition
a means of restoring health or improving a situation
There is still no cure for the common cold.
Synonyms
remedy,
treatment,
medicine,
healing,
antidote,
corrective,
panacea,
restorative,
nostrumin the sense of drug
Definition
any substance used in the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of disease
The drug will treat those infected.
Synonyms
medication,
medicine,
remedy,
panacea,
elixir,
physic,
medicament
in the sense of medication
Definition
a drug or remedy
She stopped taking the prescribed medication.
Synonyms
medicine,
drug,
cure,
remedy,
prescription,
medicament
Synonyms of 'medicine'
medicine
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of nostrum
Definition
a quack medicine
Supermarket shelves are lined with nostrums claiming to alleviate flu symptoms.
Synonyms
medicine,
drug,
treatment,
cure,
remedy,
potion,
panacea,
elixir,
cure-all,
patent medicine,
quack medicine,
specific,
sovereign cure
in the sense of prescription
Definition
the medicine prescribed
I'm not sleeping, even with that new prescription the doctor gave me.
Synonyms
medicine,
drug,
treatment,
preparation,
cure,
mixture,
dose,
remedy- lay eyes on
- lay figure
- lay for
- lay hands on
- lay hands on someone
- lay hands on something
- lay hands upon
- lay hold of
- lay hold of something or someone
- lay in
- layin
- laying
- laying on of hands
- lay into
- lay into someone
- lay it on
- lay it on the line
- lay it on (thick)
- lay it on thick
- lay-it-on-thick
- lay it on with a trowel
- lay low
- layman
- laymanise
- laymanize