Thesaurus results for MEDICAMENTS

medicaments

noun

plural of medicament

as in drugs

a substance or preparation used to treat disease in the 19th century a physician's bag of medicaments most likely included powerful opiates

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Recent Examples of medicaments Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing. — Justina Lee, CNBC, 29 May 2026

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Four people, including a man serving time for murder, have been arrested and accused of smuggling drugs and other contraband into the Pulaski County jail, a news release from the county sheriff's office says.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2026
Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high levels of N-methylclonazepam, a benzodiazepine that operates similarly to Xanax or Valium.

— Scott Maucione, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026

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Recently, the company partnered with CVS Health to expand access to GLP-1 medications, boosting its direct-to-consumer weight management program.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the process involves hormone medications to stimulate egg development, monitoring through bloodwork and ultrasounds and an outpatient egg-retrieval procedure.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Aug. 2026

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The pandemic marked a shift in business because the new storefront was busy with customers looking for natural remedies to fight COVID-19.

— Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Here’s what consumers should know about the recall, including all affected products and remedies.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 31 July 2026

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