medicine

== English == === Alternative forms === medicin (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe 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, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: med′-sǐn, med′-sn, IPA(key): /ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/, /ˈmɛd.s(ɪ)n/ (General American) enPR: medʹĭ-sĭn, IPA(key): /ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɛd.əs.(ə)n/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmed.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/, /ˈmed.s(ɪ)n/ Hyphenation: me‧di‧cine Rhymes: -ɛdɪsɪn, (weak vowel merger) -ɛdəsən === Noun === medicine (countable and uncountable, plural medicines) (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug. Synonym: medication Hypernym: drug (loosely, countable) Any treatment or cure. (uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness. (uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons. Hypernyms: health care, healthcare Hyponyms: scientific medicine; surgery; alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, functional medicine; folk medicine, traditional medicine, leechcraft, indigenous medicine Coordinate term: quackery (often specifically) Scientific medicine. Coordinate terms: alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, functional medicine; folk medicine, traditional medicine; quackery (mainly historical, uncountable) The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons. Coordinate term: surgery (uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine. 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. (obsolete) Black magic, superstition. (obsolete) A philter or love potion. (obsolete) A physician. (slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks. ==== Synonyms ==== (substance): drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixir (treatment): regimen, course, program, prescription (practice): health care See also Thesaurus:medicine See also Thesaurus:pharmaceutical ==== Hyponyms ==== academic medicine (which entails clinical medicine, medical education, biomedical basic science, and biomedical applied science) clinical medicine (comprising all point of care activity) laboratory medicine (which entails many lab tests, such as most serology and most NAATs (e.g., most PCRs)) By epistemologic categorization: scientific medicine evidence-based medicine integrative medicine alternative medicine complementary medicine traditional medicine indigenous medicine Ayurvedic medicine traditional Chinese medicine folk medicine ==== Meronyms ==== oncology ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Tok Pisin: marasin ==== Translations ==== === Verb === medicine (third-person singular simple present medicines, present participle medicining, simple past and past participle medicined) (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine. === See also === therapy panacea === References === Prescription Desk Reference, Prescription Drug Information: “medicine”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. "medicine" in the Merriam-Webster On-line dictionary "medicine" in the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, Helicon Publishing LTD 2007. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “medicine”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “medicine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Italian == === Noun === medicine f plural of medicina === Anagrams === endemici == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French medecine, with the i added back to reflect the original Latin medicīna. === Noun === medicine f (plural medicines) medicine (act of practising medical treatment) ==== Descendants ==== French: médecine == Spanish == === Verb === medicine inflection of medicinar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative