medicine
med.i.cine \'med-*-s*n, Brit usu 'med-s*n\ n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L medicina,
fr. fem. of medicinus of a physician,]fr. medicus 1a: a substance or
preparation used in treating disease 1b: something that affects well-being
2: the science and art of preventing, alleviating, or curing disease; es p
: the branch of this field concerned with the nonsurgical treatment of
disease 3: a drug or similar substance used other than to treat disease 4:
an object held by the No. American Indians to give control over natural or
magical forces; also : magical power or a magical rite - medicine vt