medicine

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Alternative forms

• medicin (obsolete)

Etymology

Middle English medicin, from Old French, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicinus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medeor (“I heal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ˈmed-sǐn, ˈmed-sn, IPA^(key): /ˈmɛd.sɪn/, /ˈmɛd.sn̩/

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• (US) enPR: ˈmed-ĭ-sĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.dɪ.sɪn/
• (Weak-vowel merger) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.də.sən]

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Noun

medicine (plural medicines)

1. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
2. A treatment or cure.
3. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
4. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
5. Ritual Native American magic used (notably by a medicine man) to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
6. (obsolete) black magic, superstition.
7. (obsolete) A philtre or love potion.

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8. (obsolete) A physician.

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Synonyms

• (treatment): regimen, course, program, prescription
• (substance): drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixir
• See also Wikisaurus:medicine
• See also Wikisaurus:pharmaceutical

Derived terms

Terms derived from medicine (noun)

clinical medicine Edison's medicine evidence-based medicine forced medicine

medicine ball medicine dance medicine man medicine show

organized medicine take one's medicine taste of one's own medicine

Related terms

• medic
• medicament
• medication
• medicate
• medicinal
• premedication

Translations

substance which promotes healing

• Afrikaans: medisyne
• Alabama: aissi
• Albanian: ilaç (sq) m
• Arabic: دواء m (dawāʾ)
• Aramaic: סמא m (sāma)
• Armenian: դեղ (hy) (deł)
• Asturian: melecina f
• Azeri: ilaç, dərman
• Bashkir: дарыу (darïw)
• Belarusian: лекі m pl (léki), лякарства n (ljakárstva)
• Breton: louzoù (br) pl
• Bulgarian: лекарство (bg) n (lekárstvo)
• Burmese: ဆေး (my) (hse:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥 (zh), 药 (zh) (yào), 藥材, 药材 (zh) (yàocái), 藥物 (zh), 药物 (zh) (yàowù), 藥物 (zh), 药物 (zh) (yàowù)

• Czech: lék (cs) m
• Danish: medicin (da) c
• Dutch: medicijn (nl) n, geneesmiddel (nl) n
• Esperanto: kuracilo (eo)
• Estonian: arstirohi, medikament
• Ewe: atike n
• Faroese: heilivágur m
• Finnish: lääke (fi)
• French: médicament (fr) m, remède (fr) m
• Georgian: წამალი (camali)
• German: Arznei (de) f, Medizin (de) f, Medikament (de) n
• Greek: φάρμακο (el) n (fármako)

  Ancient: φαρμάκιον (farmakion) n, φαρμάκευμα (farmakeuma) n, βοήθημα (voithima) n

• Haitian Creole: medikaman
• Hawaiian: lāʻau
• Hebrew: תרופה (he) f (trufā)
• Hindi: औषधि (aușadhi), औषध (aușadh)
• Hungarian: gyógyszer (hu), orvosság (hu)
• Icelandic: lyf (is) n
• Indonesian: obat (id)
• Italian: medicina (it) f
• Japanese: 薬 (ja) (くすり, kusuri)
• Kamba: daawa
• Kazakh: дауа (dawa), дәрі (däri)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំ (km) (tnam)
• Kikuyu: ndawa
• Korean: 약 (ko) (yak)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: derman (ku) m, îlac (ku) m

  Sorani: دەرمان (derman), دەوا (dewa)

• Kyrgyz: дары (darı)
• Lao: ຢາ (lo) (yaa)
• Latvian: zāles f pl, medikaments m
• Lithuanian: vaistas (lt) m, medikamentas m
• Luhya: kamalesi
• Luxembourgish: Medezin m
• Macedonian: лек m (lek), лекарство n (lekárstvo)
• Malay: ubat (ms)
• Maori: rongoā
• Meru: ndawa
• Mongolian: эм тариа (em taria)
• Navajo: azeeʼ
• Neapolitan: 'mmericìna f
• Norwegian: legemiddel n, medikament n, medisin (no) m
• Persian: دارو (fa) (dâru)
• Polish: lekarstwo (pl) n, lek (pl) m, medykament (pl) m
• Portuguese: remédio (pt) m
• Romanian: medicament (ro) n
• Russian: лекарство (ru) n (lekárstvo), медикамент (ru) m (medikamént), лека́рственное сре́дство n (lekárstvennoje srédstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas m, cungaidh f, ìoc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лек m, лијек m, здравило n

  Roman: lek m, lijek m, zdravilo (sh) n

• Slovak: liek m
• Slovene: zdravilo (sl) n
• Sotho: moriana
• Spanish: medicamento (es) m, medicina (es) f
• Swahili: dawa (sw)
• Swedish: läkemedel (sv) n, medicin (sv) c
• Tajik: дору (doru)
• Tamil: மருந்து (ta) (marundu)
• Taos: woléne
• Tatar: дару (tt) (daru)
• Telugu: మందు (te) (mandu), ఔషదం (aushadam)
• Thai: ยา (ya)
• Tok Pisin: marasin
• Turkish: ilaç (tr)
• Turkmen: derman
• Ukrainian: ліки m pl (líky), лік m (lik), лікарство n (likárstvo)
• Uzbek: iloj, dori, medikament
• Vietnamese: thuốc (vi)
• Yoruba: oogun
• Zulu: iselapho class 7/8, umuthi (zu) class 3/4

treatment or cure

• Arabic: علاج (ar) m (ʿilāj)
• Armenian: դեղ (hy) (deł)
• Belarusian: лячэнне n (ljačénnje)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中醫, 中医 (zh) (zhōngyī), 治療 (zh), 治疗 (zh) (zhìliáo)

• Czech: léčba (cs) f
• Ewe: atike n, amatsi n
• Finnish: hoito (fi)
• French: traitement (fr) m, médicaments (fr) m pl
• Georgian: მკურნალობა (mkurnaloba)
• Greek: αγωγή (el) f (agogí)
• Japanese: 治療 (ja) (ちりょう, chiryō)

• Latvian: ārstēšana f (process of treatment), ārstniecība f (treatment in general), izārstēšana f (treatment with a supposed successful outcome)
• Macedonian: лекување n (lekúvanje), лек m (lek)
• Portuguese: tratamento (pt) m
• Romanian: terapie (ro) f, tratament (ro) n
• Russian: лечение (ru) n (lečénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas m
• Slovak: liečba f
• Taos: woléne
• Thai: การรักษา (kan raksa)
• Tok Pisin: marasin
• Ukrainian: лікування n (likuvánnja), лік m (lik)

field of study

• Albanian: mjekësi f
• Arabic: طب (ar) m (ṭibb)
• Armenian: բժշկություն (bžškutʿyun)
• Azeri: tibb (az)
• Belarusian: медыцына f (medycýna)
• Breton: medisinerezh m
• Bulgarian: медицина (bg) f (medicína)
• Burmese: အာယုဗ္ဗေဒ (my) (a joú beída.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醫學, 医学 (zh) (yīxué)方劑學, 方剂学 (fāngjìxué)

• Czech: lékařství (cs) n
• Danish: medicin (da) c
• Dutch: geneeskunde (nl) f, artsenij f (archaic)
• Esperanto: medicino (eo)
• Estonian: meditsiin
• Faroese: læknafrøði f
• Finnish: lääketiede (fi)
• French: médecine (fr) f
• Georgian: მედიცინა (medic’ina)
• German: Medizin (de) f
• Greek: ιατρική (el) f (iatrikí)
• Hebrew: רפואה (he) f (r'fuá)
• Hungarian: orvostudomány (hu), orvostan (hu)
• Icelandic: læknisfræði (is) f
• Italian: medicina (it) f, clinica f
• Japanese: 医学 (ja) (いがく, igaku)
• Kazakh: медицина (medïtsïna)
• Korean: 의학 (ko) (uihak) (醫學 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: tib (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: медицина (meditsina)

• Lao: ວິຊາແພດ (wīsáː pʰɛ̂ːt)
• Latvian: medicīna f
• Lithuanian: medicina (lt) f
• Macedonian: медицина f (medicína)
• Malay: perubatan
• Mongolian: анагаах ухаан (anagaah uhaan)
• Neapolitan: 'mmericìna f
• Norwegian: medisin (no) m
• Persian: پزشکی (fa) (pezeški), طب (fa) (tebb)
• Polish: medycyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: medicina (pt) f
• Romanian: medicină (ro)
• Russian: медицина (ru) f (medicína)
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-leigheas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медицина f

  Roman: medicina f

• Slovak: lekárstvo n, medicína f
• Slovene: medicina (sl) f
• Spanish: medicina (es) f
• Swedish: medicin (sv) c, läkarvetenskap c, läkekonst c
• Tajik: тиб (tib), пизишкӣ (piziškī)
• Tatar: медицина (meditsina)
• Telugu: వైద్యం (te) (vaidyam)
• Thai: แพทยศาสตร์ (phaetthayasat)
• Tok Pisin: marasin
• Turkish: tıp (tr)
• Turkmen: medisina
• Ukrainian: медицина (uk) f (medycýna)
• Uzbek: meditsina, (archaic) tib
• Volapük: medinav (vo)

profession

• Arabic: طب (ar) m (ṭibb)
• Czech: lékařství (cs) n
• Dutch: geneeskunde (nl), artsenij f (archaic)
• Finnish: lääketiede (fi), lääkäriys
• Greek: ιατρική (el) f (iatrikí)
• Latvian: medicīna f

• Portuguese: medicina (pt) f
• Russian: медицина (ru) f (medicína)
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas m
• Thai: แพทย์ (th) (phaet)
• Tok Pisin: marasin
• Ukrainian: медицина (uk) f (medycýna)

ritual Native American magic

• Alabama: apofka
• Danish: medicin (da)
• Dutch: medicijn (nl) n

• Hungarian: varázsszer
• Macedonian: вражење n (vráženje), вражба f (vrážba)

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• Albanian: bar m, ilaç m
• Breton: mezegiezh f
• Catalan: medicament m
• Hindi: दवाई (davāī)
• Indonesian: obat

• Jèrriais: méd'cinne f, méd'cinn'nie f
• Marathi: औषद (oušad)
• Romanian: leac m, f
• Swahili: dawa, madawa pl (noun 5,6) (1,2)
• Tamil: ஔடதம் (auṭatam)

Verb

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

1. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.
   • 1857, Delia Bacon, The philosophy of the plays of Shakspere unfolded:

     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.

See also

• therapy
• panacea

References

• Prescription Desk Reference, Prescription Drug Information:
• “medicine” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "medicine" in the Merriam-Webster On-line dictionary
• "medicine" in the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, Helicon Publishing LTD 2007.
• medicine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• medicine at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Noun

medicine f

1. plural form of medicina

Anagrams

• endemici

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French medecine, with the i added back to reflect the original Latin medicīna.

Noun

medicine f (plural medicines)

1. medicine (act of practising medical treatment)

Descendants

• French: médecine