medicine

Noun

• punishment for one's actions
  • you have to face the music
    
  • take your 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) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

• the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

Verb

• treat medicinally, treat with medicine

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  music , practice of medicine , medication , medicament , medicinal drug , medical specialty , medicate