Medicine
41medicine — [[t]me̱ds(ə)n, AM me̱dɪsɪn[/t]] ♦♦♦ medicines 1) N UNCOUNT Medicine is the treatment of illness and injuries by doctors and nurses. He pursued a career in medicine... I was interested in alternative medicine and becoming an aromatherapist...… …
42Adoption medicine — Medicine for the adopted child, including pre adoption counseling and evaluation based on a child s medical records as well as post adoption consultations and, often, primary care of the adopted child. The field of adoption medicine began to… …
43medicine — Synonyms and related words: anatomy, anesthesiology, audiology, bacteriology, balm, balsam, cardiology, chiropody, corpse reviver, cure, cure all, dental surgery, dentistry, dermatology, diagnostics, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, embryology,… …
44medicine — n. 1 the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, esp. as distinct from surgical methods. 2 any drug or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease, esp. one taken by mouth. 3 a spell, charm, or… …
45medicine — /ˈmɛdəsən / (say meduhsuhn), /ˈmɛdsən / (say medsuhn) noun 1. any substance or substances used in treating disease; a medicament; a remedy. 2. the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs,… …
46medicine — The science and art dealing with the prevention, cure and alleviation of diseases; in a narrower sense that part of the science and art of restoring and preserving health which is the province of the physician as distinguished from the surgeon… …
47medicine — The science and art dealing with the prevention, cure and alleviation of diseases; in a narrower sense that part of the science and art of restoring and preserving health which is the province of the physician as distinguished from the surgeon… …
48medicine — Folk medicine was available (Jer. 8:22) but knowledge of physiology was rudimentary the heart was thought to be the seat of moral judgement [[➝ Judgement]] (Job 27:6; Deut. 2:30). Diagnosis was haphazard. Disease was regarded as connected with… …
49medicine — [13] Latin medērī ‘heal’ underlies all the English ‘medical’ words (it was formed from the base *med , which also produced English remedy). From it was derived medicus ‘doctor’, which has given English medical [17]; and on medicus in turn were… …
50medicine — Folk medicine is an accumulation of very diverse techniques and beliefs, on which many layers of cultural history have left a mark; it could never have been known in its entirety to any one community, let alone one individual. The two primary …
