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medicine noun 1 a any substance used to treat or prevent disease or illness, especially one taken internally; b as adj • medicine bottle • medicine cabinet. 2 the science or practice of treating or preventing illness, especially using prepared substances rather than surgery. 3 medical practice or the profession of a physician. 4 in primitive societies: something regarded as magical or curative. have or get a taste or dose of one's own medicine to suffer the same unpleasant treatment that one has given to other people. take one's medicine to accept an unpleasant but deserved punishment.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from French medecine, from Latin medicina, from medicus a physician.
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