as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Recent Examples of medicine
Research has shown that these shortages of essential medicines can translate directly to harm for patients:
Some of these shortages have led directly to patient deaths.
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
Hidden figures, so to speak. Consider Charlotte Dr. M.T. Pope, the first Black person licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025
For thousands of years, ashwagandha (Indian ginseng or winter cherry) has been used in Ayurvedic medicine—India's traditional medicine system—due to its many health benefits.
—Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2025
The Order of the Companions of Honour has no more than 65 members at a time and recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the arts, science, medicine or government.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
Hidden figures, so to speak. Consider Charlotte Dr. M.T. Pope, the first Black person licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025
For thousands of years, ashwagandha (Indian ginseng or winter cherry) has been used in Ayurvedic medicine—India's traditional medicine system—due to its many health benefits.
—Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2025
The Order of the Companions of Honour has no more than 65 members at a time and recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the arts, science, medicine or government.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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Either development could be disastrous for the distribution of medication to treat opioid addiction, reversing the gains, however tenuous, made under the Biden administration.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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His lawyers also argued that his longtime use of a medication to treat back pain could result in the pentobarbital used in lethal injections being ineffective or less effective.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Behind her was a group of patients who had bused there from a rehab center for drug and alcohol addiction.—
Dan Pompei,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Cartels will only be put out of business by legalizing drugs and immigration, not by declaring war on them.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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It is commonly used as a natural remedy for nausea and stomach upset.3 1.—
Lauren O'Connor, MS,
Health,
10 Feb. 2025
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While the state Assembly derailed that initial plan, forfeiting the grant, the push for a practical remedy to gridlock never died.—
DJ Gribbin,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Apple Cider Vinegar, which contrasts Gibson with two genuinely ill young women in her orbit who are searching for miracle cancer cures, comes at the crest of the latest wave of scam content.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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All the same, understanding a Morandi still-life is a pesky illusion that may overtake you, the cure for which is looking again, harder.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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