" medicines "

[Noun]  | "med*i*cine" | \ ˈme-di-sən \

1: a substance or preparation used in treating disease

2: something that affects well-being

3: the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin medicina, from feminine of medicinus of a physician, from medicus;

[Noun]  | "allopathic medicine" 

1: a system of medical practice that emphasizes diagnosing and treating disease and the use of conventional, evidence-based therapeutic measures (such as drugs or surgery) —called also allopathy

Origin: 1835 ;

[Noun]  | "alternative medicine" 

1: any of various systems of healing or treating disease (such as chiropractic, homeopathy, or faith healing) not included in the traditional medical curricula of the U.S. and Britain

Origin: 1972 ;

[Noun]  | "defensive medicine" 

1: the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits

Origin: 1969 ;

[Noun]  | "folk medicine" 

1: traditional medicine as practiced nonprofessionally especially by people isolated from modern medical services and usually involving the use of plant-derived remedies on an empirical basis

Origin: 1878 ;

[Noun]  | "homeopathic medicine" 

1: a system of alternative medicine that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce symptoms in healthy persons similar to those of the disease : homeopathy

Origin: 1828 ;

[Noun]  | "internal medicine" 

1: a branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases not requiring surgery

Origin: 1835 ;

[Noun]  | "nuclear medicine" 

1: a branch of medicine dealing with the use of radioactive materials in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

Origin: 1952 ;

[Noun]  | "osteopathic medicine" 

1: a system of medical practice that emphasizes a holistic and comprehensive approach to patient care and utilizes the manipulation of musculoskeletal tissues along with other therapeutic measures (such as the use of drugs or surgery) to prevent and treat disease —called also osteopathy

Origin: 1900 ;

[Noun]  | "patent medicine" 

1: a nonprescription medicinal preparation that is typically protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed; also : any drug that is a proprietary

Origin: 1770 ;

[Noun]  | "medicines" 

[Noun]  | "medicine" 

[Noun]  | "patent medicines"