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medicamento — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • medication noun A drug or medicine used to treat an illness.
  • medicine noun A substance taken to treat or prevent illness.

Senses

medicamento is used for these senses in English:

  • medication A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
  • medicine (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.

medicine — full definition

  1. noun A substance taken to treat or prevent illness.
  2. noun The science and practice of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease.
  3. noun Among some Indigenous cultures, ritual or spiritual practices believed to influence healing or fortune.

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