noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin medicina, from feminine of medicinus of a physician, from medicus
Date: 13th century
1. a substance or preparation used in treating disease, something that affects well-being,
2. the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease, the branch of medicine concerned with the nonsurgical treatment of disease, a substance (as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease, an object held in traditional American Indian belief to give control over natural or magical forces, medicine transitive verb
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