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Definition of Medicine
Medicine

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.

A philter or love potion.

A physician.

To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.

Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.

Short for Medicine man.

Intoxicating liquor; drink.

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Medicine Quotations

The medicine increases the disease.
Virgil

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
Paul D. White

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
Barney Frank

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Jon Porter

Medicine Translations

medicine in Afrikaans is medisyne
medicine in Dutch is medicijn, artsenij, geneesmiddel
medicine in German is Medizin, Arznei {f}
medicine in Italian is medicina, medicina
medicine in Latin is rememdium
medicine in Norwegian is medisin
medicine in Portuguese is medicina
medicine in Spanish is medicina, medicina, medicamento


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