Thesaurus results for MEDICAMENT

medicament

noun

mi-ˈdi-kə-mənt

as in medication

a substance or preparation used to treat disease in the 19th century a physician's bag of medicaments most likely included powerful opiates

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Recent Examples of medicament Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing. —

Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2026 The doctors here have every modern medicament, but candidly confessed that the answer to the malady is beyond them. —

Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 If the medicaments are innocuous, there’s little harm except to the patients’ pocketbooks. —

Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020 At the moment, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB involves taking highly toxic medicaments for as long as two years. —

The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019 The Persian author Mansur ibn Ilyas (c.1380–1422) wrote of resetting fractured or broken bones using braces and tight bandaging to immobilize and realign limbs, followed by the application of various salves and medicaments to help the bones heal. —

Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019

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Talk to your doctor about your medications, as some medications have side effects that can increase your fall risk.

— Sherri Gordon, Health, 12 May 2026
Fragmented treatment infrastructure More broadly, the nation’s treatment infrastructure for excessive alcohol consumption remains fragmented, medications remain underutilized, and harm-reduction strategies long embraced by other countries remain taboo.

— Lev Facher, STAT, 12 May 2026