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medicine

[med-uh-sin, med-suhn] / ˈmɛd ə sɪn, ˈmɛd sən /


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"As for help from the government, there hasn't been any -- no tents, no medicine, no food, no drinking water, nothing," said Junaidin.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Digoxin has been used in medicine for centuries and costs less than ten cents per day.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Combining protection against the three diseases has been considered a miracle of modern medicine.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

We’re bringing together the most influential voices across government, industry, venture capital and public health for high-level networking and vital cross-sector conversations on the urgent issues reshaping medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

He struggled to get more willow bark from his medicine pouch, but dropped it, and couldn’t find it again in the half-darkness.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Understanding how these separate pathways interact could also help researchers design more effective combinations of obesity medicines in the future.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The UK's medicines regulator, the MHRA, has given permission for the first human trials of a vaccine for Bundibugyo to go ahead.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Drug companies that price their medicines consistently below the threshold could ensure patients have unfettered access to their drugs, meaning no prior authorization, while those that price above that threshold would jeopardize their patent protection.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

The “high vibrational” herb shop offers “plant medicines for body, mind & wellness.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

“Angelina, bring my small cabinet of medicines and the bag of herbs. A hot poultice placed on my belly will help to shrink the womb and parsley will bring away the afterbirth.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The hope-inspiring ministry of Ronald's mother, first and engrossing study, and ceaseless occupation next, had effectually medicined his growing melancholy.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Each boat that puts to sea has been medicined with care, many incantations and other magic observances having been had recourse to, in obedience to the rules which the superstitious people have followed for ages.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

For two long weeks had he to he abed, he, who, as he himself told, had never to this day needed any healing but such as the leech who medicined his beasts could give him.

From Margery — Volume 08 by Clara Bell

We were still at Windsor; our renewed hopes medicined the anguish we had suffered from the late tragedies.

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When he revived, he would have medicined my eye, but found there was but the socket left and said, "O my son, it is well that it was thine eye and not thy life!"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne

Certainly, now you see that all your Doctoring and medicining hath been to some purpose, and now you feel also that all herbs were made for some good effects.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

As the night struggles slowly into day so sickness climbs stealthily into health, and nature has a system of medicining her ailments which might only be thwarted by the ministrations of a mere doctor.

From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum

And she Shall know no more its tender, sweet caress, Soft medicining woe.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

Go thou thy way, sorrowful and suffering soul, alone; and if thy own heart bleeds, strive thou to soothe its pangs, by medicining the wounds and healing the hurts of another.

From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson




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