medicine
Definitions
- A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
- A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug
- third-person singular present indicative
- take one's medicine, to submit bravely or resignedly to punishment, esp. when deserved.
- Any treatment or cure.
- Any treatment or cure
- second-person singular imperative
- 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...
- The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness
- The science and art of diagnosing and treating disease or injury and maintaining health.
- The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons
- The practice of medicine.
- The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
- Scientific medicine
- A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury.
- Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
- Something that serves as a remedy or corrective: medicine for rebuilding the economy; measures that were harsh medicine.
- 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.
- Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native Americans.
- Black magic, superstition.
- (Medicine) any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
- A philter or love potion.
- (Medicine) the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
- A physician.
- (Medicine) any nonsurgical branch of medical science
- Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
Equivalents
85 more languages
བོད་སྐད།སྨན
Danskmedicin
ગુજરાતીદવા
Hausamagani
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻilāʻau
Igboogwu
Кыргызчадары
LëtzebuergeschMedezin
Lingálamono
ລາວຢາ
Malagasyfanafody
Te Reo Māorirongoā
Монголэм
मराठीऔषध
Maltiduwa
नेपालीऔषधी
ଓଡ଼ିଆଔଷଧ
Ikinyarwandaumuti
سنڌيدوا
සිංහලඖෂධය
Slovenčinaliek
Türkmençelukmançylyk
Setswanamore
ئۇيغۇرچەدورا
O'zbekchatib
Yorùbáòógùn
isiZuluumuthi
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”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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