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Noun
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) preventive medicine (the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease) "the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine"
S: (n) alternative medicine (the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture)
S: (n) complementary medicine (the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine)
S: (v) digitalize (administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects)
S: (v) bring around, cure, heal (provide a cure for, make healthy again) "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
S: (v) inject, shoot (give an injection to) "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
S: (v) infuse (introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes) "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"
S: (v) immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation) "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
S: (v) cup, transfuse (treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin)
W: (adj) medical [Related to: medicine] (relating to the study or practice of medicine) "the medical profession"; "a medical student"; "medical school"