Word Finder - medicine

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A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.

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A treatment or cure.

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The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

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She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.

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The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.

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Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.

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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.

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Black magic, superstition.

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A philter or love potion.

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A physician.

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Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

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To treat with medicine.

Medicine isn't an exact science.

She wrenched open the medicine cabinet for the most powerful of the drugs Dr. Mallard prescribed for her and slammed the cabinet shut.

And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone!

When I'm not studying medicine, I'm practicing it at the hospital.

They said she'd be sleepy because of the medicine, so I'll try to sleep while she is asleep.

Doctor gave her medicine to make her well, but poor Florence did not get well.

With a penchant for medicine and science and my magic, I can cure what others could not.

The answer was mix of advanced medicine and magic.

The nurse injected the medicine into the IV and left the room.

After having taken medicine, and fasted for three days, all the fire in the town is extinguished.

Even to Natasha herself it was pleasant to see that so many sacrifices were being made for her sake, and to know that she had to take medicine at certain hours, though she declared that no medicine would cure her and that it was all nonsense.

From that point, medicine would never be the same.

If you love "Western medicine" and think all acupuncturists are "quacks," then you are not likely to heed (or even appreciate) your friend's well-meaning efforts to get you to drink your own urine for its health benefits.

They talk about medicine--what is the good of medicine when it can't cure a cold!

She bit back an order to leave her stuff alone but stopped herself, watching him go through her medicine cabinet for any additional drugs.

The doc reappeared, frowning, and armed with another medicine gun.

He became a member of the Academy of Medicine in 1863, and ten years afterwards entered the Academy of Sciences, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1889 in succession to Louis Pasteur.

The university, founded in 1869, built mainly of basalt, has schools of arts, medicine, chemistry and mineralogy.

Minutes later when the nurse arrived with a syringe of medicine, Destiny was asleep again, still clutching the doll to her chest.

I've tried traditional medicine" he motioned to the machines lining the perimeter of the room "and my magic."

In 1817 a Roman Catholic theological faculty was added, with a seminary called the Konvikt, and there are now also faculties of law, medicine, philosophy, political economy and natural science.

The last medicine has done her a very great deal of good.

After a period of instruction in medicine by a doctor who also, according to Lucian, was an impostor, he succeeded in establishing an oracle of Aesculapius at his native town.

Some of his shorter essays on medicine, logic, &c., take a poetical form (the poem on logic was published by Schmoelders in 1836).

He studied philosophy and medicine at the university of Louvain, where he remained as a lecturer for several years.

Martin, is in Allbutt's System of Medicine.

The old university of Mexico, with its faculties of theology, law and medicine (founded 1551 and inaugurated 1553), ceased to exist in 1865 and was succeeded by schools of engineering, law and medicine, which have been signally successful.

Mucilages are useful in medicine as vehicles for various insoluble and other drugs, and in the arts as thickeners (in calico-printing, dyeing, &c.).

First there is a medical usage - empirical versus dogmatic medicine.

Cod-liver oil is used externally in medicine when its internal administration is rendered impossible by idiosyncrasy or the state of the patient's digestion.

Luckes, Hospital Sisters and their Duties; Morten, How to become a Nurse; Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing; Nightingale Boyd, "Nursing," in Quain's Dictionary of Medicine.

Its only important application in medicine is as a carminative to lessen the griping caused by some purgatives such as aloes.

Liver of sulphur or hepar sulphuris, a medicine known to the alchemists, is a mixture of various polysulphides with the sulphate and thiosulphate, in variable proportions, obtained by gently heating the carbonate with sulphur in covered vessels.

And then we come to Greece, the home of Hippocrates, the "Father of Modern Medicine," who left us not just the oath that bears his name but also a corpus of roughly sixty medical texts based on his teaching.

Hippocrates was remarkable not only as a surgeon but also because he systematized medicine in his spare time.

When computers are in your clothes, medicine, eyeglasses, wallet, tires, walls, makeup, jewelry, cookware, tennis shoes, binoculars, and everything else you own, those things will do more than you can imagine—the stuff of science fiction.

If you think "Western Medicine" is a business whose goal is to keep you sick to sell you medicines, you will tend to move away from genetically modified foods and favor organic.

Every time she gave him his medicine he sobbed and silently kissed her hand.

As a boy he attended the Volksschule of his native village, and at the age of seventeen, having passed through the gymnasium of Kdslin, went to Berlin to study medicine.

He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner.

Science, he says, may be compared to a tree; metaphysics is the root, physics is the trunk, and the three chief branches are mechanics, medicine and Ouvres, viii.

For this patron several of his treatises were written; and the commencement of his Canon of Medicine also dates from his stay in Hyrcania.

The best-known amongst them, and that to which Avicenna owed his European reputation, is the Canon of Medicine; an Arabic edition of it appeared at Rome in 1593 and a Hebrew version at Naples in 1491.

The royal university of Parma, founded in 1601 by Ranuccio I., and reconstituted by Philip of Bourbon in 1768, has faculties in law, medicine and natural science, and possesses an observatory, and natural science collections, among which is the Eritrean Zoological Museum.

Having studied medicine at Paris, Lucas took the degree of M.D.

Other schools are the school of naval medicine at Bordeaux with annexes at Toulon, Brest and Rochefort; schools of torpedoes and mines and of gunnery at Toulon, &c., &c. The coles dhydro graphic established at various ports are for theoretical training for the higher grades of the merchant service.

Other authorities suggest that it is going much too far to deny the existence of religion altogether, and instance as proof of the divinity of the supra-normal anthropomorphic beings of the Baiame class, the fact that the Yuin and cognate tribes dance around the image of Daramulun (their equivalent of Baiame) and the medicine men " invocate his name."

Hertz himself gave an admirable account of the significance of his discoveries in a lecture on the relations between light and electricity, delivered before the German Society for the Advancement of Natural Science and Medicine at Heidelberg in September 1889.

The outdoor charitable institutions include those which distribute help in money or food; those which supply medicine and medical help; those which aid mothers unable to rear their own children; those which subsidize orphans and foundlings; those which subsidize educational institutes; and those which supply marriage portions.

The leech has been used in medicine from remote antiquity as a moderate blood-letter; and it is still so used, though more rarely than formerly.