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Recent Examples of medicament The doctors here have every modern medicament, but candidly confessed that the answer to the malady is beyond them. Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 If the medicaments are innocuous, there’s little harm except to the patients’ pocketbooks. Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020 At the moment, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB involves taking highly toxic medicaments for as long as two years. The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019 The Persian author Mansur ibn Ilyas (c.1380–1422) wrote of resetting fractured or broken bones using braces and tight bandaging to immobilize and realign limbs, followed by the application of various salves and medicaments to help the bones heal. Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicament
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • When Best of Beauty launched in 1996, skin care was something best kept hidden behind your medicine cabinet.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, society considered whiskey as a suitable medicine for cancer, typhoid, and diphtheria among other illnesses.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • As the Harvard Business Review (HBR) explains, learning is a remedy for the fear of failure.
    Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There is no cure or treatment for the disease beyond treatment of symptoms.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    Emily Trainham, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Medicament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicament. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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