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medicine   (TTS Sound)

The noun medicine has 4 senses

• medicine, medical specialty -- (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)


• medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug -- ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)


• medicine, practice of medicine -- (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")


• music, medicine -- (punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine")

The verb medicine has 1 sense

• medicate, medicine -- (treat medicinally, treat with medicine)