English-Spanish translations for medicine

• medicina
  Se deben mantener las medicinas alejadas de los alimentos. Medicine should be kept out of food.
  Existen modos muy diferentes de entender las medicinas no convencionales. Different views are taken of alternative medicine.
  Hipócrates dijo una vez que para estudiar medicina es necesario estudiar el clima. Hippocrates once said that to study medicine you have to study the climate.
• medicamento
  Muchos medicamentos son sustancias tóxicas. Many medicines are toxic substances.
  El Sr. Rod ha mencionado también el acceso a los medicamentos. Mr Rod also mentioned access to medicines.
  Hay médicos, pero no medicamentos. There are doctors, but there is no medicine.

Definition of medicine

• A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way
• The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness
• Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc
• Black magic, superstition
• A physician
• Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks
• To treat with medicine

Related words

• biomedicine
• telemedicine
• phytomedicine
• aeromedicine
• geomedicine
• medicine cabinet
• medicine man
• medicine ball
• medicine woman