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/ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/ · noun
(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug..
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)!
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 […]
She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
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.
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.
Use medicine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Medicine means (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug..
Common synonyms include drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixir.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
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