Sekirov Dictionary

medicine

UK /ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/US /ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/

noun 12
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 3

noun12

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a drug that someone takes to get better when they are sick or hurt
- 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)!
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Any treatment or cure.
- A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
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The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
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The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
Scientific medicine.
(historical) The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
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Among the Native Americans, a spiritual power, or any object or person through whom such power is channeled, believed to grant influence over natural or magical forces, provide protection, or effect healing.
- 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. — 1896
(slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
(no longer used) Black magic, superstition.
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(no longer used) A philter or love potion.
- 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. — 1597
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(no longer used) A physician.
- I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone — 1598

verb1

(no longer used, rare) To treat with medicine.

forms

medicined · medicining · medicines

Phrases with medicine

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