Medicine

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 370 v.1

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1. medicine 1|n| the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).
2. "He made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine."
3. "For many diseases, nuclear medicine scans yield the most useful information needed to make a diagnosis or to determine appropriate treatment, if any."
4. "In the western world there are two extremes: first, the total belief in medicine, overestimating medicine as a science as though it knows no frontiers or does not accept the power of death."
5. medicine 2 |n| a drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease.
6. "Give her some medicine."
7. "Keep the tablet in its blister pack until you are ready to take the medicine."
8. "Your health care provider may prescribe medicine to help lower your cholesterol."