All medicament synonyms

noun medicament

• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
• pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
• tonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
• prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
• opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
• dope — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
• sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
• depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
• potion — a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
• pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
• pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
• medication — the use or application of medicine.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
• alleviation — an alleviating or being alleviated
• antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
• recovery — an act of recovering.
• assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• panacea — an ancient Greek goddess of healing.
• treatment — an act or manner of treating.
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• reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
• remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
• healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
• physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
• drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
• proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
• catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
• countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
• counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
• counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
• medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• biologic — pertaining to biology.
• medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
• ointment — a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.
• curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
• unguent — an ointment or salve, usually liquid or semiliquid, for application to wounds, sores, etc.
• lotion — Pharmacology. a liquid, usually aqueous or sometimes alcoholic preparation containing insoluble material in the form of a suspension or emulsion, intended for external application without rubbing, in such skin conditions as itching, infection, allergy, pain, or the like.
• salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
• balm — Balm is a sweet-smelling oil that is obtained from some tropical trees and used to make creams that heal wounds or reduce pain.