medico-, medi-, med-
(Latin: heal, cure; physician)
medicable
1. That which can be healed, curable.
2. Subject to treatment with a reasonable expectation of a cure.
medical
1. A reference to medicine or the study of the art and science of caring for those who are ill and the treatment of diseases.
2. Requiring therapy with medicines as distinct from surgical treatment.
medicament
1. A medicinal substance or agent.
2. A medicine or remedy.
medicamentous, medicamentosus
1. Concerning medical drugs.
2. A reference to, used in, or caused by a medical drug or medical drugs.
medicant
A medicinal substance.
medicate
1. To treat a disease with drugs.
2. To permeate with medicinal substances.
3. To impregnate or imbue with a medicinal substance.
medication
1. Medicinal substance.
2. Treatment with remedies.
3. Impregnation with medicine.
4. The administration of remedies.
Varieties of medications
- Hypodermic medication: Treatment by injection of medicine into the body through the skin, using a syringe and needle.
- Intravenous medication: The injection of a sterile solution of a drug or an infusion into a vein.
- Ionic medication: The introduction of ions of drugs into body tissue through the skin by means of electricity.
- Sublingual medication: Treatment with an agent, usually in tablet form, placed under the tongue.
- Substitutive medication: Medical therapy to cause a nonspecific inflammation to counteract a specific one.
medicator
An instrument for applying a medicine locally, especially within a body cavity; an applicator.
medicinal
1. Having healing qualities.
2. A reference to a medicine or to healing.
medicine
1. A drug or remedy.
2. The act and science of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health; as well as, the prevention of illness.
3. Treatment of disease by medical, as distinguished from surgical actions; nonsurgical treatment.
There are several varieties of medicine which include: adolescent, aerospace, alternative, aviation, Ayurvedic, behavioral, clinical, community, cookbook, defensive, diagnostic nuclear, dental, disaster, domestic, emergency, environmental, experimental, family, fetal and maternal, folk, forensic, geographical, geriatric, group, high-tech, holistic, humanistic, hyperbaric, industrial, integrated, internal, legal, manipulative, mental, neonatal, nuclear, occupational, oral, osteopathic, patent, perinatal, physical, physical and rehabilitation, preclinical, preventive, proprietary, psychological, psychosomatic, social, socialized, space, sports, state, tropical, veterinary, and whole person.
There is no doubt that other specialized medical areas also exist.
medicobiologic, medicobiological
Pertaining to the biological aspects of medicine.
medicochirurgic
Pertaining to medicine and surgery.
medicomania
A mania that appears as a symptom of some physical disease.
medicozoological
A reference to zoology in its relation to medicine.
remediable
Capable of being remedied.