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Recent Examples of medicament 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
  • Some of the trial’s participants were given a medication called metformin; others were given a placebo.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • There are ways to manage allergy symptoms without taking medications.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities uncovered drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as evidence of prostitution and multiple firearms during the operation, according to the DEA.
    Danielle Wallace , Bonny Chu , Greg Wehner , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • These are powerful drugs — antipsychotics, sedatives, sleep aids — each carrying their own risks.
    Dr. Sabooh Mubbashar, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An 'awakening for the Republicans'? Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner, has known Kennedy for almost a decade.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 4 May 2025
  • Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who. animal behavior animals medical technology medicine 1 free article left Want More?
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The remedy that will follow the decision could break up the company, or at least separate its Chrome web browser business from the rest of the portfolio.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In the first days of testimony in the remedy trial being heard at the D.C. federal court, Microsoft comes up frequently.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But what the production really needs is a script doctor capable of a miracle cure.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Medicament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicament. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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