Betekenis van medicine In het Nederlands

• 0 treatment for illness or injury, or the study of this:

  • paediatric/preventative medicine

  • orthodox/Western medicine

  • a career in medicine

  • She is a doctor, but is unable to practise medicine (= work as a doctor) in her own country.

• 1 a substance, especially in the form of a liquid or a pill, that is a treatment for illness or injury:

  • cough medicine

  • Take two spoonfuls of medicine at mealtimes.

  • She knows a lot about herbal medicines.

• 2 the science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury:

  • Pediatrics is a branch of medicine.

  • She continued to practice medicine until she was in her eighties.

• 3 a substance taken into the body in treating an illness:

  • [ U ] Take two spoonfuls of cough medicine.

  • [ C ] This antibiotic should not be taken with other medicines.

• 4 the treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated:

  • Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years.

  • alternative/complementary/preventive medicine

• 5 a drug that is used to treat illness or injury:

  • Producing new medicines is an enormously complex and costly process.

  • The President announced that he would send $320 million worth of food and medicine to the region.

  • over-the-counter/prescription medicine(s)