noun / verb
medicine
MED-ih-sun/ˈmedɪsn/
The practice of diagnosing, preventing, and treating illness.
Medicine uses carefully measured doses of drugs to treat illness.
Etymology
Latin medicina covered both the art of healing and a remedy. That pairing survives in English medicine, which can name a treatment substance or the practice of treating illness.
In context
we treat a lot of all kinds of conditions basically chinese medicine is all-rounded kind of medicine that can help with a lot of different kind of conditions
More examples
- He studies medicine because he wants to become a doctor.
- Advances in medicine help people live longer.
- Preventive medicine focuses on keeping people healthy.
Forms
medicine
medical adjective — Relating to diagnosing, preventing, or treating illness.
Similar words
- healthcare
- Includes nursing and other services beyond physicians' medical practice.
- treatment
- Refers to care for illness, not the entire discipline.