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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
medicine/ˈmedsn/

▶noun

1 the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).

2 a drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease.

3 (among North American Indians and some other peoples) a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing or magical power.

– phrases
give someone a dose (or taste) of their own medicine give someone the same bad treatment that they have given to others.
take one's medicine submit to punishment as being deserved.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. medicina, from medicus ‘physician’.

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