单词 | medicine |
释义 | Word Frequency medicine(ˈmɛdɪsɪn, ˈmɛdsɪn) 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 he's in medicine ▶ Related adjectives: Aesculapian, iatric 5. something regarded by primitive people as having magical or remedial properties 6. take one's medicine 7. a taste of one's own medicine Word origin C13: via Old French from Latin medicīna (ars) (art of) healing, from medicus doctor, from medērī to heal |
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