medicine
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/]
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Senses
1. medicine (noun) — sense 1
Definition: A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
Example: This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
2. medicine (noun) — sense 2
Definition: Any treatment or cure.
Example: A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
3. medicine (noun) — sense 3
Definition: The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
Example: She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
4. medicine (verb) — sense 4
Definition: To treat with medicine.
Example: And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.
Structure of the word
Roots:- med (Proto-Indo-European)
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