Synonyms for medicine
ˈmɛd ə sɪn; esp. Brit. ˈmɛd sənmedicine

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1. medicinenoun

   A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.

   Synonyms:
   prescription, regimen, elixir, course, program, pharmaceutical, drug

2. medicinenoun

   A treatment or cure.

   Synonyms:
   regimen, course, pharmaceutical, drug, program, prescription, elixir

3. medicinenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   prescription, regimen, course, program, pharmaceutical, elixir, drug

4. medicinenoun

   The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.

   Synonyms:
   regimen, prescription, elixir, drug, pharmaceutical, course, program

5. medicinenoun

   Ritual Native American magic used (notably by a medicine man) to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.

   Synonyms:
   elixir, regimen, prescription, pharmaceutical, course, drug, program

6. medicinenoun

   black magic, superstition.

   Synonyms:
   program, drug, elixir, prescription, course, regimen, pharmaceutical

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. medicine

   Synonyms:
   remedy, physic, antidote, therapeutics, salve, cure, corrective

   Antonyms:
   aggravation, poison, virus, bane

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1. medicine, medical specialtynoun

   the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

   Synonyms:
   medicament, medication, music, medicinal drug, practice of medicine, medical specialty

2. medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drugnoun

   (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

   Synonyms:
   medicament, medication, music, medicinal drug, practice of medicine, medical specialty

3. medicine, practice of medicinenoun

   the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries

   "he studied medicine at Harvard"

   Synonyms:
   medicament, medication, music, medicinal drug, practice of medicine, medical specialty

4. music, medicineverb

   punishment for one's actions

   "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine"

   Synonyms:
   practice of medicine, euphony, medical specialty, medicinal drug, medicament, music, medication

5. medicate, medicineverb

   treat medicinally, treat with medicine

   Synonyms:
   medicate

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1. antitode

   it reverse the adverse effect solution to a problem

   the poison's can be unaffected witha antitode

   Submitted by rinat on June 9, 2017  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. medicinenoun

   Synonyms:
   drug, physic, medicament, remedy, NOSTRUM

2. medicinenoun

   Synonyms:
   healing art

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1. medicinenoun

   Synonyms:
   materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea, nostrum

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1. List of paraphrases for "medicine":

   medical, medicines, médecine, drug, drugs, medicina, medication, medizin, medications, cure, pharmaceutical, physician, medicinal, physicians, pharmaceuticals

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How to use medicine in a sentence?

1. Patch Adams:

   Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

2. Jennifer Gunter:

   Anybody who perpetuates the idea that virginity has anything biological to do with it is incorrect and they should be told that, virginity is a patriarchal, social construct. So keep medicine out of it.

3. Veerapong Nakprasit:

   Those on the boat did not want to come to Thailand so we gave them food, medicine, fuel and water, we did our humanitarian duty. They wanted to go to a third country. They did not want to come to Thailand so we sent them on their way. This is not a push back because these people wanted to go.

4. Scott Gottlieb:

   When a consumer goes online to buy medicines purportedly from Canada, they may get a medicine sourced from elsewhere that could be counterfeit, expired or misbranded. While operations or illegal online pharmacies may state on their websites that its medicines are coming from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, etc., this is not necessarily always the case, such operations and illegal online pharmacies take advantage of unsuspecting Americans by purporting to distribute safe and effective imported drugs, at least some of which are instead expired, mislabeled, subject to recalls or potentially counterfeit and that are provided outside of the closed American distribution system meant to protect patient safety.

5. Attila Vago:

   It is hard to determine at this stage to what extent the new restrictions set back sales of the medicine, but the product has not vanished from the market.