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Etymology

From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.

derived from medicīna
derived from medecine
derived from medicine
inherited from medicin

Definitions

1
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
- This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
- Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!
2
Any treatment or cure.
- A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
- Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]
3
The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
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1. 4
  The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
  - The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
2. Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing,…
  Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
3. 6
  Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical…
  Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
  - The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
4. Black magic, superstition.
5. 8
  A philter or love potion.
  - If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
6. 9
  A physician.
  - I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
7. Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
8. To treat with medicine.

The neighborhood

synonymhealth carepractice
synonymmedicine
neighbormedic
neighbormedical
neighbormedicament
neighbormedicate
neighbormedication
neighbormedicinal
neighborpostmedication
neighborpremedication
neighbordisease
neighbordiagnosis
neighborsymptom
neighboretiology

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at medicine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at medicine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at medicine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

Etymology

Definitions

The neighborhood

Derived

Vish — recursive loop