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say it: MED-uh-suhn
medicine is a noun and verb meaning "the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
medicine
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
“he studied medicine at Harvard”
medicine
punishment for one's actions
“you have to face the music”
“take your medicine”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for medicine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.