medicine

This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.

Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!

(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.

A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?

Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]

(broadly, countable) Any treatment or cure.

She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.

(uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons

en:medical practice including surgical practice

(uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.

the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century

Coordinate term: surgery

en:medical practice coordinate with surgical practice

(mainly historical, uncountable) The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.

traditional medicine
traditional medicine

(uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.

The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.

1896, F. H. Giddings, The Principles of Sociology:

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.

If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.

1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, II. ii. 18:

I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone

1598, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, II. i. 72:

(slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

en-noun

medicine (countable and uncountable, plural medicines)

academic medicine

which entails clinical medicine, medical education, biomedical basic science, and biomedical applied science

laboratory medicine

which entails many lab tests, such as most serology and most NAATs (e.g., most PCRs)

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

izārstēšana

treatment with a supposed successful outcome

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.


medicine

And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.

1857, Delia Bacon, The philosophy of the plays of Shakspere unfolded:

(rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.

en-verb

medicine (third-person singular simple present medicines, present participle medicining, simple past and past participle medicined)

medicines (present singular third-person)
medicining (participle present)
medicined (participle past)
medicined (past)