MEDICINAL DRUG Synonyms

• (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

• the act of treating with medicines or remedies

• the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

• (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

• the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries

• punishment for one's actions

• treat medicinally, treat with medicine

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• tending to cure or restore to health

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

• make (substances) hard and improve their usability

• be or become preserved

• a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time

• the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time

• a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

• street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

• treat with an agent; add (an agent) to

• administer a drug to

• a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

• administer a drug to

• use recreational drugs

• a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste

• hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold

• a substance believed to cure all ills

• of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists

• of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment

• drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment

• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

• a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage

• available only with a doctor's written prescription

• directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

• a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

• written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

• written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

• act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• set straight or right

• provide relief for

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

• the management of someone or something

• a manner of dealing with something artistically

• (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)

• an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic