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medicine
[ med-uh-sinor, especially British, med-suhn ]
noun
- any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
Synonyms: , , ,
- 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)
- to administer medicine to.
medicine
/ ˈmɛdsɪn; ˈmɛdɪsɪn /
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 medicine Aesculapianiatric
he's in medicine
- 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 medicine or a dose of one's own medicinean unpleasant experience in retaliation for and by similar methods to an unkind or aggressive act
medicine
- The scientific study or practice of diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases or disorders of the body or mind of a person or animal.
- An agent, such as a drug, used to treat disease or injury.
Other Word Forms
- t·i·Ա adjective
- p·i·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of medicine1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing medicine
see dose of one's own medicine ; take one's medicine .Example Sentences
Israel has also blocked all deliveries of humanitarian aid and other supplies to Gaza since 2 March, which the UN says has caused severe shortages of food, medicine and fuel.
But the medicine didn’t take, or it was the wrong diagnosis, or we didn’t take care of ourselves and were reinfected.
Death comes by missile, by gunshot, by collapsed building, by lack of medicine and by fear.
I’ve worked in public school, higher education, medicine and the private sector for the last 15 years.
“People who don’t have a primary care provider — which is a lot, because there are not enough — end up in the ER when they need routine care,” said David Alonso, a local internal medicine doctor.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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