Meaning of medicine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
   countable, uncountable
2. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug
3. third-person singular present indicative
4. take one's medicine, to submit bravely or resignedly to punishment, esp. when deserved.
5. Any treatment or cure.
   broadly, countable
6. Any treatment or cure
7. second-person singular imperative
8. medisinaal عِلاجيّا، شِفائيا، طِبيّاً оздравително medicinalmente léčivě medizinisch medicinskt; helbredende θεραπευτικά, φαρμακευτικά medicinalmente tervendavalt با دارو lääkinnällisesti médicalement עַל פִּי חוּקֵי הַרפוּאָה रोगहर medicinski gyógyszerként secara pengobatan læknisfræðilega dal punto di vista medico 医薬的に 의약으로 kaip vaistas, gydymo tikslais ārstnieciski dgn cara yang mengubat als geneesmiddel medisinsk leczniczo د درملو په واسطه medicinalmente prin mijloace medi­cale; din punct...
9. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
   uncountable
10. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness
11. The science and art of diagnosing and treating disease or injury and maintaining health.
12. The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
    uncountable
13. The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons
14. The practice of medicine.
15. The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
    historical, mainly, uncountable
16. Scientific medicine
17. A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury.
18. Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
    uncountable
19. Something that serves as a remedy or corrective: medicine for rebuilding the economy; measures that were harsh medicine.
20. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
    countable, uncountable
21. Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native Americans.
22. Black magic, superstition.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
23. (Medicine) any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
24. A philter or love potion.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
25. (Medicine) the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
26. A physician.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. (Medicine) any nonsurgical branch of medical science
28. Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
    countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.”

“Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!”

“A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?”

“Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]”

“She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.”

“The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons”

“the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century”

“The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.”

“If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.”

“I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone”

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