Medicine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
  2. 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.
  3. the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics.
  4. the medical profession.
  5. (among North American Indians) any object or practice regarded as having magical powers.
verb (used with object), med·i·cined, med·i·cin·ing.
  1. to administer medicine to.
Idioms
  1. to repay or punish a person for an injury by use of the offender's own methods.
  2. to undergo or accept punishment, especially deserved punishment: He took his medicine like a man.
noun
  1. any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
  2. the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
  3. any nonsurgical branch of medical science
  4. the practice or profession of medicine
  5. something regarded by primitive people as having magical or remedial properties
  6. to accept a deserved punishment
  7. an unpleasant experience in retaliation for and by similar methods to an unkind or aggressive act
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