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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
/ ĕ′ĭ-ĭ /
- 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 51Թ Forms
- t·i·Ա adjective
- p·i·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ 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
The “Common Side Effects” writers go to admirable lengths to explain why a cure-all mushroom could be hazardous; violence would soar, the medicine could fall into the wrong hands, evildoers would never die.
But he was scrutinised for recommending homeopathy, alternative medicine and other treatments that critics have called "pseudoscience".
But Mr Ricks seemed in little doubt that tariffs would eventually hit and that would have damaging consequences for investment in new medicines.
"I still have a problem in my wound... I take a lot of medicine for that, I feel so bad and tired."
The government has promised to consult businesses affected by the changes, with makers of machinery equipment, medicines and chemicals, alongside carmakers, most likely to be affected.
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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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