medicine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: medicines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medicin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
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)!
gloss: Any treatment or cure.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]
gloss: The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
gloss: The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
gloss: The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
specifically
uncountable
gloss: The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
pos: noun
tags: historical
mainly
uncountable
examples: the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century
gloss: Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Black magic, superstition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A philter or love potion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A physician.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
gloss: Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: health care
medicine
Related words: medic
medical
medicament
medicate
medication
medicinal
postmedication
premedication
disease
diagnosis
symptom
etiology
treatment
prognosis
physician
pharmaceutical
Derived words: 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
medicine person
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
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: طِبّ
roman: ṭibb
lang: Armenian
word: բժշկություն
roman: bžškutʻyun
lang: Belarusian
word: медыцы́на
roman: mjedycýna
lang: Bulgarian
word: медици́на
roman: medicína
lang: Catalan
word: medicina
lang: Czech
word: lékařství
lang: Dutch
word: geneeskunde
lang: Dutch
word: artsenij
lang: Finnish
word: lääketiede
lang: Greek
word: ιατρική
roman: iatrikí
lang: Hindi
word: चिकित्सा
roman: cikitsā
lang: Indonesian
word: dokter
lang: Irish
word: liacht
lang: Japanese
word: 医師
roman: ishi
lang: Japanese
word: 医者
roman: isha
lang: Korean
word: 의사
roman: uisa
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bijîşkî
lang: Ladino
word: medikería
lang: Latin
word: medicina
lang: Latvian
word: medicīna
lang: Malayalam
word: വൈദ്യം
roman: vaidyaṁ
lang: Old English
word: lǣċedōm
lang: Old English
word: lǣċecræft
lang: Portuguese
word: medicina
lang: Russian
word: медици́на
roman: medicína
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leigheas
lang: Slovak
word: medicína
lang: Slovak
word: lekárstvo
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: dresi
lang: Tamil
word: மருத்துவம்
roman: maruttuvam
lang: Thai
word: แพทย์
roman: pɛ̂ɛt
lang: Tok Pisin
word: marasin
lang: Turkish
word: tıp
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طب
roman: tıbb
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طبابت
roman: tabâbet
lang: Ukrainian
word: медици́на
roman: medycýna
lang: Welsh
word: meddygaeth
lang: Yiddish
word: מעדיצין
roman: meditsin