Definitions for medicine

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medicine med·i·cine

Spelling: [med-uh-sin or, esp. British, med-s Medicine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in medicine (cdeeiimn).

Definitions for medicine

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.
6. a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site:

Idioms

1. 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.
2. take one's medicine, to undergo or accept punishment, especially deserved punishment:

verb (used with object)

1. to administer medicine to.

Origin of medicine

1175-1225; Middle English medicin Latin medicīna (ars) healing (art), feminine of medicīnus pertaining to a physician. See medical, -ine

Examples for medicine

The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of medicine in November.

Though her work discords with the conventions of American medicine, she sees herself on the side of an older tradition.

But let us reason together, brother; don't you believe at all in medicine?

The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.

There was a mistake about the medicine, and she was blamed; that's all.

In this understanding, art is like a medicine or a toxin, transforming its audience for good or ill.

"It was the dark-eyed one that changed the medicine on me," he said.

Beatrice, what have you done with my new bottle of medicine?

Then she exchanged it for one of the same size on the medicine tray.

Certain trades, such as medicine or law, are eternally well-respected.