medicine

1. (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.Examples: "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)!"Synonyms: medication, drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixircountableuncountable

2. (loosely, countable) Any treatment or cure.Examples: "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 […]"Synonyms: regimen, course, program, prescriptionbroadlycountable

3. (uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.Examples: "She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future."uncountable

4. (uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.Examples: "The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons"uncountable

5. (uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.Examples: "the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century"historicalmainlyuncountable

6. (uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.uncountable