Thesaurus results for SERUM

serum

noun

Definition of serum

as in drug

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Recent Examples of serum What a collagen serum can do is increase moisture retention in the outer layer of your skin, Agullo says. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 16 July 2026 Across 10 states, 3,000 serum samples were collected between November 2024 and April 2025. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 The superpower comb can either be used with the serum as an applicator or without the serum as a scalp massager. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 An antioxidant serum—a skin-care product that often contains vitamin C or other ingredients that help neutralize free radicals generated by UV rays and pollution—goes on before sunscreen. — Angela Haupt, Time, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for serum

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Noun

Too fearful of discrimination to go to hospitals for antiretroviral drugs, many transgender people have stopped taking them — significantly increasing their risk of transmission.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Novo sues Lilly amid escalating weight-loss rivalry Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk sued Eli Lilly on Tuesday, accusing the US drug giant of misleading advertising practices.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of drug

Noun

Usually, the first-choice treatment is trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, a sulfonamide antibiotic commonly referred to by the brand names Bactrim or Septra.

— Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Although it’s not caused by bacteria, cyclosporiasis is treated with antibiotics.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 July 2026

Definition of antibiotic

Noun

Clancy’s doctors took her on and off medications to treat the depression, which her attorney has said worsened her symptoms.

— Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
The bags contained three new iPhones, our rental car key, medication, jewelry, licenses, credit cards and other valuables.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 19 July 2026

Definition of medication

Noun

That convergence is drawing together businesses that once occupied separate corners of the market, from consumer staples companies selling food to biotech firms developing medicines and veterinary providers offering increasingly sophisticated care.

— Elsa Ohlen,Carolin Roth, CNBC, 18 July 2026
Adam Farren is the CEO of Canvas Medical, an EMR company accelerating everyday medicine.

— Adam Farren, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of medicine

Noun

To decolonize the nose, patients’ nostrils are simply swabbed with a cotton tip that has been coated with antiseptic.

— Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
After removing the tick, the bite area should be cleaned with soap and water, rubbing alcohol, or another antiseptic.

— Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 16 June 2026

Definition of antiseptic

Noun

From the start, this modification of the remedies was on shaky ground.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Notification letters about the safety risk will be mailed in late August, and an additional notice about the remedy will be sent out at a later date, the agency noted.

— Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of remedy

Noun

With no cure, Inaba manages her symptoms and now champions awareness through the Sjöut campaign with Novartis, empowering others to be heard and enabling her to resume her career.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
There's no cure for the species of Ebola circulating, and some locals have attacked health workers, suspicious of their motives.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026

Definition of cure

Noun

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
The doctors here have every modern medicament, but candidly confessed that the answer to the malady is beyond them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of medicament

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