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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024med•i•cine /ˈmɛdəsɪn/USA pronunciation n. - Medicine[countable] a substance used in treating disease or illness.
- Medicine[uncountable] the art or science of preserving health and treating disease.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024med•i•cine (med′ə sin or, esp. Brit., med′sən),USA pronunciation n., v., -cined, -cin•ing. n. - Medicineany substance or substances used in treating disease or illness;
medicament;
remedy. - Medicinethe 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.
- Medicinethe art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics.
- the medical profession.
- (among North American Indians) any object or practice regarded as having magical powers.
- Idiomsgive someone a dose or taste of his or her own medicine, to repay or punish a person for an injury by use of the offender's own methods.
- Idiomstake one's medicine, to undergo or accept punishment, esp. deserved punishment:He took his medicine like a man.
v.t. - to administer medicine to.
- Latin medicīna (ars) healing (art), feminine of medicīnus pertaining to a physician. See medical, -ine1
- Middle English medicin 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged medication, drug; pharmaceutical; physic.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: medicine /ˈmɛdɪsɪn; ˈmɛdsɪn/ n - any drug or remedy for use in treating, preventing, or alleviating the symptoms of disease
- the science of preventing, diagnosing, alleviating, or curing disease
- any nonsurgical branch of medical science
- the practice or profession of medicine
- something regarded by primitive people as having magical or remedial properties
- take one's medicine ⇒ to accept a deserved punishment
- a taste of one's own medicine, a dose of one's own medicine ⇒ an unpleasant experience in retaliation for and by similar methods to an unkind or aggressive act
Etymology: 13th Century: via Old French from Latin medicīna (ars) (art of) healing, from medicus doctor, from medērī to heal |