Meaning & use
medicine
A substance used to treat illness or relieve pain, or the science of treating disease.
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She took the medicine her doctor prescribed twice a day for the infection.
He studied medicine at university for eight years before becoming a surgeon.
A note on using this word
Medicine can refer to a specific drug or, more broadly, to the entire field of healing and treating illness.
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