as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Recent Examples of medicine
Recognizing this, medicine and public health are now developing new approaches informed by the interplay between inflammation and aging.
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In Congress, few have been bold enough to speak out against the harm DTC advertising has done to American medicine, but there is support across both parties and chambers for reform.
—Rep. Greg Murphy, M.d., MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
If it’s caught early, the disease can be cured with benznidazole or nifurtimox, medicines that kill the parasite.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Map these suffixes to their class of medicine.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In Congress, few have been bold enough to speak out against the harm DTC advertising has done to American medicine, but there is support across both parties and chambers for reform.
—Rep. Greg Murphy, M.d., MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
If it’s caught early, the disease can be cured with benznidazole or nifurtimox, medicines that kill the parasite.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Map these suffixes to their class of medicine.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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Many parents from my practice share a common concern about their children taking asthma medications with steroids.—
Rhonda Conner-Warren,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Some experts believe that certain medications — a category called fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) — could be to blame.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Petro has scaled back efforts to target drug supply, instead trying to solve the issue through social programs.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The researchers tested their two-part drug on mice and zebrafish engineered to produce β-glucuronidase, and found that the drug was activated almost exclusively in tumors, sparing healthy tissue and organs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Sep. 2025
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The best smart telescopes offer a powerful remedy to this problem in the form of advanced image stacking and real-time processing to filter out artificial light interference and reveal detail in objects that would be difficult to observe with the naked eye or traditional optics.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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As the Harvard Business Review (HBR) explains, learning is a remedy for the fear of failure.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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There is no cure or treatment for the disease beyond treatment of symptoms.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
12 Sep. 2025
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But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.—
Emily Trainham,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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