any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
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.
the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics.
the medical profession.
(among North American Indians) any object or practice regarded as having magical powers.
verb (used with object),med·i·cined,med·i·cin·ing.
to administer medicine to.
Idioms for medicine
give someone a dose / taste of his / her own medicine, to repay or punish a person for an injury by use of the offender's own methods.
take one's medicine, to undergo or accept punishment, especially deserved punishment: He took his medicine like a man.
Origin of medicine
1175–1225; Middle English medicin<Latin medicīna (ars) healing (art), feminine of medicīnus pertaining to a physician. See medical, -ine1
SYNONYMS FOR medicine
1 medication, drug; pharmaceutical; physic.
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OTHER WORDS FROM medicine
an·ti·med·i·cine,adjectivesu·per·med·i·cine,noun
Words nearby medicine
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British Dictionary definitions for medicine
medicine
/ (ˈmɛdɪsɪn, ˈmɛdsɪn) /
noun
any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
any nonsurgical branch of medical science
the practice or profession of medicinehe's in medicine Related adjectives: Aesculapian, iatric
something regarded by primitive people as having magical or remedial properties
take one's medicineto accept a deserved punishment
a taste of one's own medicineora dose of one's own medicinean unpleasant experience in retaliation for and by similar methods to an unkind or aggressive act
Word Origin for medicine
C13: via Old French from Latin medicīna (ars) (art of) healing, from medicus doctor, from medērī to heal