(US, pharmacy) A drug, device, or biological product packaged separately that is intended for use only with another approved individually specified drug, where both are required to achieve the intended use, indication, or effect.
Obsolete form of drug. [(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.]
The act or process of curing disease by calling on the faith and expectations of the patient, without the use of medication or physical forms of therapy.
Obsolete spelling of medicine [(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.]
A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply.
Obsolete form of paregoric. [A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium.]
(medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription.
Medication that is a combination drug of multiple active ingredients, and that is intended to be consumed widely, even by currently healthy individuals, as a means of preventative medicine
(transitive, intransitive, medicine) To consume a substance as a medication without the advice of a physician, in order to treat a real or imagined condition.
(medicine, often attributively) A treatment strategy, chiefly used in rheumatology, that defines a measurable treatment target (such as clinical remission or low disease activity) and involves tight control and treatment adjustments until the chosen target is achieved.
(medicine, obsolete) An old medicinal mixture of pitch and tar scraped from the sides of ships.
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