1 a substance, especially in the form of a liquid or a pill, that is a treatment for illness or injury:
2 the science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury:
3 a substance taken into the body in treating an illness:
[ 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)
She is a cancer sufferer who has rejected orthodox medicine and turned instead to acupuncture, aromatherapy and other forms of alternative medicine.
Elizabeth Quan is a London-based practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
She specializes in paediatric medicine.
The number of practising doctors is falling even though more people are qualifying in medicine.
Penicillin produced a revolution in medicine.
This medicine is for external use only and should not be taken internally.
The little boy was stamping his foot and refusing to take his medicine.
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