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Medicine   /mˈɛdəsən/   Listen
Medicine

noun
1.
The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.  Synonym: medical specialty.
2.
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease.  Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug.
3.
The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.  Synonym: practice of medicine.
4.
Punishment for one's actions.  Synonym: music.  "Take your medicine"
verb
1.
Treat medicinally, treat with medicine.  Synonym: medicate.



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"Medicine" Quotes from Famous Books



... He had but recently had a taste of the white man's medicine, and his savage heart was filled with bitterness and hate. In another moment the rumble of the war-drums rose from the village, calling in the hunters from the forest and ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... a business man, and sets about looking for a place, in a store. He is going to give up all thoughts of literary pursuits and devote himself to money-making. He also says, "I have been thinking seriously of the ministry, but then—I have also thought of medicine, but ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

... Owen's Oxford some of its most distinguished ornaments; whilst men like Philip Henry and Joseph Alleine, went forth to perpetuate Owen's principles; and in founding the English schools of metaphysics, architecture, and medicine, Locke and Wren, and Sydenham taught the world that it was no misfortune to have been the pupils of the Puritan. It would be pleasant to record that Owen's generosity was reciprocated, and that if Oxford could not recognize the Non-conformist, neither did she forget the Republican who patronized ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... JONES, twenty-four years of age, single, was a graduate in Medicine of Sydney University, New South Wales. A member and Medical Officer of F. Wild's Western Base (Queen Mary Land), he took part in several sledging journeys during 1912 and was leader of the party who explored westward ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... Garry O'Neil, hastily putting to his patient's lips a medicine glass, into which he dropped something out of a small vial, filling up the glass with water. "I've got something here shtrang enough, begorrah, to make a dead ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson


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