1. (

• medicine ,
• medical_specialty

) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques ;

2. (

• medicine ,
• medication ,
• medicament ,
• medicinal_drug

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

3. (

• medicine ,
• practice_of_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" ;

4. (

• music ,
• medicine ,

) punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine" ;

1. (

• medicate ,
• medicine

) treat medicinally, treat with medicine ;