Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An agent that promotes recovery from injury or ailment; a medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A healing substance; anything used as a curative; a medicine or remedy; now, more especially, a healing substance applied externally.
- noun Medicinal effect; curative power; the property of healing or remedying disease or disorder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything used for healing diseases or wounds, especially a medicine; a medication; a healing application.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
medicine ,medication ordrug
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The autoinjectors manufactured, for example by Owen Mumford, thus use very low pressures to inject the medicament, which is injected through a needle in a relatively slow stream.
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There was a cheerful warmth everywhere; the air was like an elixir; the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was a cheerful warmth everywhere, the air was like an elixir, the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.
Northern Lights, Volume 5. Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was a cheerful warmth everywhere, the air was like an elixir, the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was a cheerful warmth everywhere, the air was like an elixir, the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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(_amuletum_) is a kind of medicament hung about the neck or other part of the body to prevent or remove diseases.
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a kind of medicament, hung about the neck, or other part of the body, to prevent or remove disease.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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Ce medicament NE DOIT PAS ETRE UTILISE chez les enfants ayant des antecedents de convulsions!
How to Snore in French Con Chapman 2011
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I mean, there's no medicament which will change this.
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And the big problem was that the company knew in '62 that this medicament is improving this kind of handicap, but they took it from the market nearly a year later.
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