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medicine
A	noun
	1	medicine, practice of medicine
				the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚occupation; business; job; line of work; line ╚profession ╚learned profession ╚medicine, practice of medicine ╚complementary medicine ╚alternative medicine ╚preventive medicine
	2	music, medicine
				punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚social control ╚punishment; penalty; penalization; penalisation ╚music, medicine
	3	medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
				(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
		Category Tree: entity ╚causal agent; cause; causal agency ╚agent ╚drug ╚medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug ╚angiogenesis inhibitor ╚analgesic; anodyne; painkiller; pain pill ╚amrinone; Inocor ╚allopurinol; Zyloprim ╚alendronate; Fosamax ╚acyclovir; Zovirax
	4	medicine, medical specialty
				the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚knowledge domain; knowledge base ╚discipline; subject; subject area; subject field; field; field of study; study; bailiwick; branch of knowledge ╚science; scientific discipline ╚natural science ╚life science; bioscience ╚medical science ╚medicine, medical specialty
B	verb
	1	medicate, medicine
				treat medicinally, treat with medicine
		Category Tree: treat; care for ╚medicate, medicine ╚salve ╚drug; dose

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