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, medicine, 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, medicine, 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, medicine, 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, medicine, music, medication

5. medicate, medicineverb

   treat medicinally, treat with medicine

   Synonyms:
   medicate, medicine

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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. Bas Huijbregts:

   This has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine ; it's just newly invented branding for rhino products.

2. Robert Green:

   I think as we imagine a world in which genomics is a daily practice of medicine, traditional models of genetic counseling are probably not feasible, we need to understand where genetic counseling would be maintained and where new models of counseling and testing should be incorporated.

3. Rachel Erwin:

   We’ve taken the clinical part out of it, i think medicine can be useful if someone is in an acute state, and I think there’s a place for that. The problem is ultimately if you don’t get into those various things that have gotten stuck in someone, like a state of fear or anxiety or depression, and if you don’t get into that physiological part of a person and [you do] medicate it, you’re freezing the part of the person.

4. Peyton Reed:

   I knew the movie couldn't take this hard-left turn into dealing with those things, we had to give them their medicine with a bit of sugar.

5. Mwanahija Mzee:

   People come here because I actually help them. I met many patients that went to hospital first and got no help or the medicine didn't work, this is my job six days a week for more than 20 years so I do better, know more than them. Patients that come to me don't die.