Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "medicine" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

poison

Typical Location

bathroom cabinet doctor doctor's office hospital jar pharmacy or medicine cabinet

Capable Of

cargo clear up acne fight disease guard against disease lower blood pressure lower cholesterol slow disease tastes bad

Coordinate Terms

surgery

Derived Terms

Chinese medicine Chinese patent medicine Chinese traditional medicine Darwinian medicine Edison's medicine God's medicine Medicine Hat Medicine Line Medicine Lodge Yellow Medicine County a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down aeromedicine allopathic medicine antimedicine auriculomedicine biomedicine bush medicine chronomedicine cough medicine cryomedicine cybermedicine defensive medicine digital medicine dose of one's own medicine eclectic medicine electromedicine emergency medicine energy medicine ethnomedicine family medicine folk-medicine forced medicine forensic medicine generative medicine geomedicine hallway medicine herbal medicine heroic medicine iatromedicine internal medicine keraunomedicine laughter is the best medicine maintenance medicine medicine ball medicine cabinet medicine chest medicine dance medicine man medicine shield medicine show medicine up medicine woman medicinelike mediciner mediciney molecular medicine nanomedicine neuromedicine nuclear medicine orphan medicine osteopathic medicine paramedicine patent medicine personalized medicine photomedicine phytomedicine precision medicine premedicine preventative medicine preventive medicine pseudo-medicine pseudomedicine psychomedicine recreational medicine regenerative medicine reproductive medicine socialized medicine space medicine sports medicine take one's medicine taste of one's own medicine technomedicine telemedicine unclear medicine veterinary medicine xenomedicine

Derived From

medication

Context

slang

Has Property

replete with examples of moral ambiguity

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

care for drug health care healthcare learned profession medical science penalisation penalization penalty punishment treat

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Ayurvedic medicine academic medicine alternative medicine clinical medicine complementary medicine evidence-based medicine folk medicine indigenous medicine integrative medicine laboratory medicine scientific medicine traditional Chinese medicine traditional medicine

Type Of (IsA)

both science and art drug learned profession medical science profession of giving care store of information tangible thing treatment vocation

Parts (Meronyms)

andrology anesthesiology cardiology dermatology endocrinology gastroenterology gynecology hematology immunology internal medicine nephrology neurology obstetrics oncology opthalmology pediatrics psychiatry pulmonology radiology rheumatology surgery urology

Receives Action

created in laboratory found in hospital taken orally

Related Terms

diagnosis disease etiology medic medical medicament medicate medication medicinal panacea pharmaceutical physician postmedication premedication prognosis symptom therapy treatment

Related Terms

alcoholic bathroom bathroom cabinet black magic bottles cabinet curative curative properties cure curing curing disease diagnosis disease doctor doctor field doctors drink drug drugs field heal healing healing properties health health care hospitals if illness ingest magic medic medical medicament medicate medication medicine man native american object panacea pharmacy pharmacy drugs philter physician pill pills practice premedication prescription prescription pills profession prognosis properties recreational drug related related pharmacy superstition surgeon syrup take take if therapy treatment

Synonym Network

drug medicate music regimen

Used For

healthy treat disease treat illness

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.