medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: med′-sǐn
enpr: med′-sn
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɛd.s(ɪ)n/
enpr: medʹĭ-sĭn
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɛdəs(ə)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɖɪsən/
rhymes: -ɛdɪsɪn
rhymes: (weak vowel merger) -ɛdəsən
Forms: form: medicines
form: medicin
Etymology: From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
Senses: examples: text: This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
text: Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!
synonyms: medication
hypernyms: drug
glosses: A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
examples: text: A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
text: Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Innovation:
glosses: Any treatment or cure.
examples: text: She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
glosses: The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
examples: text: The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
synonyms: leechcraft
hypernyms: health care
healthcare
glosses: The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
examples: text: the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century
synonyms: leechcraft
hypernyms: health care
healthcare
glosses: The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
coordinate_terms: surgery
glosses: Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
examples: text: The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
ref: 1896, F. H. Giddings, The Principles of Sociology:
glosses: Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
glosses: Black magic, superstition.
examples: text: If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, II. ii. 18:
glosses: A philter or love potion.
examples: text: I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
ref: 1598, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, II. i. 72:
glosses: A physician.
glosses: Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
Synonyms: sense: substance
word: drug
sense: substance
word: prescription
sense: substance
word: pharmaceutical
sense: substance
word: elixir
sense: treatment
word: regimen
sense: treatment
word: course
sense: treatment
word: program
sense: treatment
word: prescription
sense: practice
word: health care
word: medicine
Hyponyms: english: which entails clinical medicine, medical education, biomedical basic science, and biomedical applied science
translation: which entails clinical medicine, medical education, biomedical basic science, and biomedical applied science
word: academic medicine
english: comprising all point of care activity
translation: comprising all point of care activity
word: clinical medicine
english: which entails many lab tests, such as most serology and most NAATs (e.g., most PCRs)
translation: which entails many lab tests, such as most serology and most NAATs (e.g., most PCRs)
word: laboratory medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: evidence-based medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: scientific medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: alternative medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: complementary medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: indigenous medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: Ayurvedic medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: traditional Chinese medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: folk medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: traditional medicine
sense: By epistemologic categorization
word: integrative medicine
Meronyms: word: oncology
word: surgery
word: internal medicine
word: anesthesiology
word: urology
word: hematology
word: radiology
word: cardiology
word: endocrinology
word: gastroenterology
word: nephrology
word: pulmonology
word: rheumatology
word: immunology
word: andrology
word: dermatology
word: neurology
word: obstetrics
word: gynecology
word: opthalmology
word: psychiatry
word: pediatrics
Derived terms: aeromedicine
allopathic medicine
antimedicine
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
auriculomedicine
biomedicine
bush medicine
Chinese medicine
Chinese patent medicine
Chinese traditional medicine
chronomedicine
cough medicine
cryomedicine
cybermedicine
Darwinian medicine
defensive medicine
digital medicine
dose of one's own medicine
eclectic medicine
Edison's medicine
electromedicine
emergency medicine
energy medicine
ethnomedicine
family medicine
folk-medicine
forced medicine
forensic medicine
generative medicine
geomedicine
God's medicine
hallway medicine
herbal medicine
heroic medicine
iatromedicine
internal medicine
keraunomedicine
laughter is the best medicine
maintenance medicine
medicine ball
medicine cabinet
medicine chest
medicine dance
Medicine Hat
medicinelike
Medicine Line
Medicine Lodge
medicine man
mediciner
medicine shield
medicine show
medicine up
medicine woman
mediciney
molecular medicine
nanomedicine
neuromedicine
nuclear medicine
orphan medicine
osteopathic medicine
paramedicine
patent medicine
personalized medicine
photomedicine
phytomedicine
precision medicine
premedicine
preventative medicine
preventive medicine
pseudo-medicine
pseudomedicine
psychomedicine
recreational medicine
regenerative medicine
reproductive medicine
socialized medicine
space medicine
sports medicine
take one's medicine
taste of one's own medicine
technomedicine
telemedicine
unclear medicine
veterinary medicine
xenomedicine
Yellow Medicine County
Related terms: word: medic
word: medical
word: medicament
word: medicate
word: medication
word: medicinal
word: postmedication
word: premedication
word: disease
word: diagnosis
word: symptom
word: etiology
word: treatment
word: prognosis
word: physician
word: pharmaceutical