Medicine
['meds(ə)n;'medɪsɪn] or ['mɛdsn]
Definition
(noun.) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; 'he studied medicine at Harvard'.
(noun.) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease.
(noun.) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
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Definition
(n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
(n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
(n.) A philter or love potion.
(n.) A physician.
(v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
Checker: Osbert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Drug, physic, medicament, remedy, NOSTRUM.[2]. Healing art.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remedy, physic, antidote, therapeutics, salve, cure, corrective
ANT:Aggravation, poison, virus, bane
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Definition
n. anything applied for the cure or lessening of disease or pain whether simple or compound (made up of more than one ingredient): the science which treats of the prevention or cure of disease: a charm.—v.t. to treat or cure by medicine.—adj. Medic′inal relating to medicine: fitted to cure or to lessen disease or pain.—adv. Medic′inally.—ns. Med′icine-bag a Red Indian's receptacle for charms; Med′icine-chest a chest for keeping medicines in a ship &c.; Med′icine-man among savages a witch-doctor or exorciser.—adjs. Med′ico-chirur′gical relating to both medicine and surgery; Med′ico-lē′gal relating to the application of medicine to questions of law.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of medicine, if pleasant to the taste, a trouble will come to you, but in a short time it will work for your good; but if you take disgusting medicine, you will suffer a protracted illness or some deep sorrow or loss will overcome you. To give medicine to others, denotes that you will work to injure some one who trusted you.
To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune, but you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious. To see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity to positions above your highest imaginings.
Editor: Sheldon
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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Examples
- The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. Plato. The Republic.
- He immediately signalled to the cruiser to send water, medicine, and provisions, and another boat made the perilous trip to the Arrow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He would surely reply that medicine gives drugs and meat and drink to human bodies. Plato. The Republic.
- I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It can't be very powerful medicine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A characteristic feature of the modern practice of medicine is in improved forms of its administration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This conjecture is the more probable, since Galileo, like Harvey and Gilbert, had been trained in the s tudy of medicine. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He shall not have any medicine but that which Mr. Pestler sends for him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He really wants sleep; and Lady Verinder's medicine chest is at my disposal. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the midst of this, Rachael returned; and with her party there was a surgeon, who brought some wine and medicines. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Remember that cleanliness, sobriety, and even good-humour and benevolence, are our best medicines. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then she ought to take medicines that would reduce--reduce the disease, you know, if you are right, my dear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think she's a-injurin' herself gradivally vith too much o' that 'ere pine-apple rum, and other strong medicines of the same natur. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He would take his broths and medicines from scarcely any other hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is well enough for parents to recognize this fact in administering medicines to their children. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Chemical History of Medicines. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Impious and false things has he said even of the virtues of our medicines, as if they were the devices of Satan--The Lord rebuke him! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nearly all patent medicines contain some alcohol, and in many, the quantity of alcohol is far in excess of that found in the strongest wines. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Where can all the strength of those medicines go, my dear? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She called Adrian; my couch was quickly surrounded by friends and assistants, and such medicines as were judged fitting were administered. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His medicines had failed;the fever was unabated; and Marianne only more quietnot more herselfremained in a heavy stupor. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Because, I said, our rulers will often have to practise upon the body corporate with medicines. Plato. The Republic.
- The poor creatures were packed on the ships often with insufficient provision of food and water, without proper sanitation, without medicines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A stranger was administering her medicines--a stranger from the country--an odious Miss . William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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