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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1. Rebecca Smith-Bindman:

   Everything we do in medicine involves trade-offs, the risks of radiation are real, and radiation leads to cancer. I think the data are quite compelling and not that hard to understand.

2. Thomas Jefferson:

   I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

3. Christopher Porrino:

   Medicine is always caught between following the science and law, and recognizing the human side.

4. Arturo Casadevall:

   If these threats materialize, medicine will need to confront new infectious diseases for which it has no experience.

5. Nick Leeper:

   In the Vascular Medicine journal paper, we’re seeing a trend towards worse levels of vascular biomarkers in people on the PPIs, all together, we’re painting a picture that this may be associated with risk, and we want to validate that moving forward.