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noun The science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind.
noun The branch of this science encompassing treatment by drugs, diet, exercise, and other nonsurgical means.
noun The practice of medicine.

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A substance used as a remedy for disease; a substance having or supposed to have curative properties; hence, figuratively, anything that has a curative or remedial effect. Than par auenture send sall he Sum of his angels to that tre, Of whi[l]k springes the oile of life, That medcyn es to man and wife. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 65. Thei perceyveden wel that no Syknesse was curable by gode Medycyne to leye thereto, but zif men knewen the nature of the Maladye. Mandeville, Travels, p. 120. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 2 19. Nature too unkind, That made no medicine for a troubled mind. Beau. and Fl., Philaster, iii. 2. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 39.
The art of preventing, curing, or alleviating diseases and remedying as far as possible the results of violence and accident. Practical medicine is divided into medicine in a stricter sense, surgery, and obstetrics. These rest largely on the sciences of anatomy and physiology, normal and pathological pharmacology, and bacteriology, which, having practical relations almost exclusively with medicine, are called the medical sciences and form distinct parts of that art. Abbreviated medicine Ne hide it nought, for if thou feignest, I can do no medicine. Gower, Conf. Amant., i.
Something which is supposed to possess curative, supernatural, or mysterious power; any object used or any ceremony performed as a charm: an English equivalent for terms used among American Indians and other savage tribes. And as an angler med'cine [i. e. bait], for surprize Of little fish, sits pouring from the rocks From out the crooked horn of a fold-bred ox. Chapman, Odyssey, xii. (Nares.) Among the North American Indians, the fetish-theory seems involved in that remarkable and general proceeding known as getting medicine. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 141. The medicine used as bait, sometimes denominated barkstone, is the product of a gland of the beaver. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 20.

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This medicine is a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety and panic disorder. — MyLinkVault Newest Links
"This medicine is about profit-making," said Mark Trouville, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office. — Latest News - UPI.com
Most of the medicine is aimed at making businesses more successful, and the researchers are worried that with the Fifa World Cup approaching, body parts will be in higher demand as people try to capitalise on increased business opportunities. — IOL: News
This method of diagnosis is not taken in isolation, but it is a useful diagnostic tool used every day in Chinese medicine, according to Edinburgh-based acupuncturist Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott. — The Daily Record - Home
"We believe that healthcare providers and patients rely on FDA-approved drug labeling every day in making critical decisions about whether a medicine is the best treatment for an individual," the company said. — IndyStar.com Top Stories

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Middle English, from Old French, from Latin medicīna, from feminine of medicīnus, of a doctor, from medicus, physician; see medical.

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from Middle English medecine, medycyne, medcin, medcyn, medsyn, from Old French medecine, also mecine, French médecine = Provencal medecina, medicina, metzina = Spanish Portuguese Italian medicina = Dutch medicijn = G. Danish Swedish medicin, from Latin medicina, (sc. ars) the healing art, medicine, (sc. officina or taberna) a physician's shop, (sc. res) a remedy, medicine; feminine of medicinus, of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon (later Old French medecin, French médccin, later English obsolete medicine (def. 4), a physician), from medicus, a physician, surgeon: see medic.
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