medicine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/|/ˈmɛd.s(ɪ)n/    美 /ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/|/ˈmed.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/|/ˈmed.s(ɪ)n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug. countable,uncountable
    — This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
  2. Any treatment or cure. broadly,countable
    — A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
  3. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness. uncountable
    — She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
  4. The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons. uncountable
    — The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
  5. The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.; Scientific medicine. countable,often,specifically,uncountable
  6. The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.; The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons. historical,mainly,uncountable
    — the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century
  7. Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine. uncountable
  8. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing. countable,uncountable
    — The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
  9. Black magic, superstition. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  10. A philter or love potion. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
  11. A physician. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
  12. Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks. countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To treat with medicine. obsolete,rare
    — And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.

词形变化

medicines plural medicin alternative medicines present,singular,third-person medicining participle,present medicined participle,past medicined past medicin alternative

词汇关系

近义词
health care medicine
下位词
academic medicine clinical medicine laboratory medicine
衍生词
aeromedicine allopathic medicine antimedicine a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down auriculomedicine biomedicine bush medicine Chinese medicine Chinese patent medicine Chinese traditional medicine chronomedicine cough medicine cryomedicine cybermedicine Darwinian medicine defensive medicine digital medicine dose of one's own medicine eclectic medicine Edison's medicine electromedicine emergency medicine energy medicine ethnomedicine family medicine folk-medicine forced medicine forensic medicine generative medicine geomedicine God's medicine hallway medicine herbal medicine heroic medicine iatromedicine internal medicine keraunomedicine laughter is the best medicine maintenance medicine medicine ball medicine cabinet medicine chest medicine dance Medicine Hat medicinelike Medicine Line Medicine Lodge medicine man medicine person mediciner medicine shield medicine show medicine up medicine woman mediciney molecular medicine nanomedicine neuromedicine nuclear medicine orphan medicine osteopathic medicine paramedicine patent medicine personalized medicine photomedicine phytomedicine precision medicine premedicine preventative medicine preventive medicine pseudo-medicine pseudomedicine psychomedicine recreational medicine regenerative medicine reproductive medicine socialized medicine space medicine sports medicine take one's medicine taste of one's own medicine technomedicine telemedicine unclear medicine veterinary medicine xenomedicine Yellow Medicine County
相关词
medic medical medicament medicate medication medicinal postmedication premedication disease diagnosis symptom etiology treatment prognosis physician pharmaceutical
部分词
oncology surgery internal medicine anesthesiology urology hematology radiology cardiology endocrinology gastroenterology nephrology pulmonology rheumatology immunology andrology dermatology neurology obstetrics gynecology opthalmology psychiatry pediatrics

词源

词源 1
From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
词源 2
From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.
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