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1.NounA substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug."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)!"
2.NounAny treatment or cure."A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?"
3.NounThe study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness."She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future."
4.NounThe profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons."The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons; the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century"
5.NounScientific medicine.
6.NounThe profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons."the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century"
7.NounRitual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
8.NounAmong the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
9.NounBlack magic, superstition.
10.NounA philter or love potion.
11.NounA physician.
12.NounRecreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
13.VerbTo treat with medicine.