(n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
(n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
(n.) A philter or love potion.
(n.) A physician.
(v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(7) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(8) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(9) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(10) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
(11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(12) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(13) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(15) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(16) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(17) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
(18) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
(19) Questions received by the center have covered all facets of animal medicine and management.
(20) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
Palliative
Definition:
(a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
(n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemotherapy and SMS-analogs can provide long-term palliation.
(2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(3) 78% of the recurrences were seen two years postoperatively and 27% were asymptomatic; 10% underwent radical operation, 27% palliative operation and 63% conservative treatment.
(4) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(5) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(6) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(7) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
(8) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
(9) For sequelae in the brain, nervous plexuses, heart, eye, surgical treatment can be useful, even if frequently with palliative results.
(10) From February 1981 to January 1985, 34 patients, with N3 metastatic nodes from primary tumours in the head and neck, were treated according to two different prospective, non-randomized protocols: 23 patients received HT combined with the first course of conventionally fractionated radical RT (40 Gy + HT--2 week interval--20-30 Gy), and 11 patients received HT combined with palliative RT (20-50 Gy + HT).
(11) The post-operative mortality after palliative biliary by-pass procedures was 16%, and the frequence of major post-operative complications 10%.
(12) Between 1981 and 1985, 20 patients with malignancy-associated ureteral obstruction (MAUO) were given external beam irradiation with a palliative intent.
(14) For patients who were given LTIC adjuvant to palliative resections the 5 year survival rate was 35.6 per cent, as compared to 4.3 per cent for STC patients or 5.2 per cent for asychronous control subjects (p less than 0.01).
(15) These data suggest that ECMO-assisted angioplasty is a safe and effective method of palliation of unstable angina associated with cardiomyopathy.
(16) In a few centers, heart transplantation is being performed as an alternative to palliative surgical procedures in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
(17) To assess the palliative care needs and the results of treatment of patients with terminal cancer admitted to a general teaching hospital.
(18) The surviving 14 patients all responded, 11 completely and three partially, with good palliation, for periods of from one to 28 months.
(19) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
(20) From March 1982 to December 1983, five patients with a mean age 7 years (4 months-16 years) underwent a palliative Mustard operation for complex cardiac anomalies.