Usually means: Science for healing and health.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word medicine:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. medicine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. medicine, medicine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. medicine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. medicine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. medicine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Medicine, medicine: Wordnik
  7. medicine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. medicine: Wiktionary
  9. medicine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. medicine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. medicine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. medicine: Dictionary.com
  13. medicine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. medicine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Medicine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. medicine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. medicine: Rhymezone
  19. medicine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. medicine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. medicine: Free Dictionary
  22. medicine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. medicine: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. medicine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Medicine (shamanism), medicine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. International Publications (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. medicine: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. Medicine (shamanism), medicine: Medical dictionary
  7. Medicine: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. medicine: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Medicine: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. medicine, medicine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Medicine: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
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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