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medicine

/med-uh-sin or, especially British, med-suhn/US // ˈmɛd ə sɪn or, especially British, ˈmɛd sən //UK // (ˈmɛdɪsɪn, ˈmɛdsɪn) //

医学,药品,医药,药物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
    • : the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipulations: often divided into medicine proper, surgery, and obstetrics.
    • : the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics.
    • : the medical profession.
    • : any object or practice regarded as having magical powers.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    med·i·cined, med·i·cin·ing.

    • : to administer medicine to.

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Examples

  • Silicon Valley’s hunger for H-1B talent may routinely make headlines, but tech isn’t doling out the biggest paycheques for those on the long-term work visa—medicine is.

  • I am an infectious disease doctor and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

  • Neandertals used medicine and tools just as humans of the time did.

  • Brain death has been a recognized concept in medicine for decades.

  • As an example, most people realize that while jacking the price of a medicine up during a health crisis would boost profits, it would also be morally indefensible.

  • The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.

  • If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.

  • The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.

  • Certain trades, such as medicine or law, are eternally well-respected.

  • In this understanding, art is like a medicine or a toxin, transforming its audience for good or ill.

  • Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.

  • Barclay, in his tract on "The Vertues of Tobacco," recommends its use as a medicine.

  • We knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.

  • And she did go; the doctor with great attention sending in half a dozen of medicine, to be drunk upon the road.

  • William Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!