All medicine synonyms

noun medicine

• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
• medication — the use or application of medicine.
• antibiotic — Antibiotics are medical drugs used to kill bacteria and treat infections.
• drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
• remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• 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.
• pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
• anesthetic — relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
• tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
• antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
• 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.
• salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
• dose — a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
• tablet — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
• vaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
• physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
• tonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
• potion — a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
• antiseptic — Antiseptic is a substance that kills germs and harmful bacteria.
• ointment — a soft, unctuous preparation, often medicated, for application to the skin; unguent.
• 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.
• capsule — A capsule is a very small tube containing powdered or liquid medicine, which you swallow.
• medicament — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• injection — the act of injecting.
• antitoxin — an antibody that neutralizes a toxin
• liniment — a liquid or semiliquid preparation for rubbing on or applying to the skin, as for sprains or bruises, usually soothing or counterirritating.
• sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
• inoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
• serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
• vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
• treatment — an act or manner of treating.
• anaesthetic — Anaesthetic is a substance that doctors use to stop you feeling pain during an operation, either in the whole of your body when you are unconscious, or in a part of your body when you are awake.
• elixir — A magical or medicinal potion.
• biologic — pertaining to biology.