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
Herbalism and traditional plant medicine are the focus of increasingly popular foraging walks offered by hotels and tour outfitters.
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Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 14 Jan. 2025
The traditional Chinese medicine practice has been used for thousands of years, originating as a treatment for pain and sickness.
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2025
Like Paré, who revolutionized wound care, Herr and Carty seem to be transforming medicine in part as a result of chance circumstance.
—The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Sangamo Therapeutics — Shares tumbled more than 56% after the genomic medicine company said partner Pfizer terminated a license and development agreement for a gene therapy for hemophilia A. Sangamo retained rights to the product.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
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Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 14 Jan. 2025
The traditional Chinese medicine practice has been used for thousands of years, originating as a treatment for pain and sickness.
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2025
Like Paré, who revolutionized wound care, Herr and Carty seem to be transforming medicine in part as a result of chance circumstance.
—The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Sangamo Therapeutics — Shares tumbled more than 56% after the genomic medicine company said partner Pfizer terminated a license and development agreement for a gene therapy for hemophilia A. Sangamo retained rights to the product.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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The Guard member was apologetic as people kept coming up, begging to get medication, clothes and insurance papers from their homes.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Treatment generally involves rest, plenty of fluids, and over-the-counter medications like acetaminophen and ibuprofen to ease pain and fever.Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025
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Last year, Medicare reached agreements to lower prices on 10 drugs.Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Six other people were also arrested and face a litany of charges, including cash transactions involving drug offenses and conspiracy.Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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McKnight and others have proposed legal reforms that would modernize remedies available to content creators.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Third, policyholders need effective remedies when insurance companies are found to have acted unreasonably.Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
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Computational biology is not only leading to tremendous discoveries like new brain maps and cures for diseases, but biology is getting a glow up from the results, thanks to Blender tool developers like Brady Johnston and animators like Tyler Sloan.Amy Sterling, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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While there is no cure for glaucoma, early detection and treatment might prevent or delay permanent vision loss.Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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