Thesaurus: medicine

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1. n. The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
2. n. Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
3. n. A philter or love potion.
4. n. A physician.
5. v. t. To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
6. n. the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
7. n. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
8. n. 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
9. n. punishment for one's actions
10. v. treat medicinally, treat with medicine