medicinal drug

1. 1.

   (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

   Synonymsmedicinemedicationmedicament

   Broaderdrug

   Narroweracycloviralendronateallopurinolamrinoneanalgesicangiogenesis inhibitorantiarrhythmicantibacterialanticholinergicanticholinesterase

   medicine

Questions about medicinal drug

What does medicinal drug mean?

medicinal drug means "(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease".

What is another word for medicinal drug?

Close synonyms include medicine, medication, medicament. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medicinal drug a common word?

medicinal drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.