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▸ noun: (loosely, countable) Any treatment or cure.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
▸ noun: (mainly historical, uncountable) The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Black magic, superstition.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A philter or love potion.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A physician.
▸ noun: (slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
▸ verb: (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.
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medicament,
medication,
medicate,
music,
medicinal drug,
practice of medicine,
medicin,
medical,
pharmacology,
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modern,
preventive,
clinical,
traditional,
psychosomatic,
chinese,
internal,
western,
veterinary,
psychological,
herbal
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