medicine

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

medicinesmedicin

1.
(countable, uncountable)A 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)!
Đồng nghĩa: medication
2.
(broadly, countable)(loosely, countable) Any treatment or cure.
A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
3.
(uncountable)The 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.
(uncountable)The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
5.
(uncountable)Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
6.
(countable, uncountable)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.
7.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Black magic, superstition.
8.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A philter or love potion.
9.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A physician.
10.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

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verb

V_es/s

medicines

V_ing/Gerund

medicining

V_ed/pp

medicinedmedicin

1.
(obsolete, rare)To treat with medicine.

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Đồng nghĩa

medication drug elixir pharmaceutical prescription course program regimentreatment regimen, course, program, prescription

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therapy panacea

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna, feminine of medicīnus, from medicus (a physician, surgeon). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a 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, m…