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English

Etymology

From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (Vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• IPA^(key): /?væk.s??ne?.??n/, /?væk.s??ne?.?n?/
• Hyphenation: vac?ci?na?tion

Noun

vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)

1. Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

Derived terms

• anti-vaccination

Related terms

• vaccination mark
• vaccinator

Translations

Danish

Noun

vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)

1. vaccination

Declension

Related terms

• vaccine
• vaccinere

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vak.si.na.sj??/

Noun

vaccination f (plural vaccinations)

1. vaccination

Related terms

• vaccin
• vacciner
• vaccinologie
• vaccinologue

Further reading

• “vaccination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

vaccination c

1. vaccination

Declension

Related terms

• vaccin
• vaccinera

References

• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vaccination in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Alternative forms

• medicin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English medicin, borrowed from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medic?na (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medic?nus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”).

The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?med-s?n, ?med-sn, IPA^(key): /?med(?).s?n/, /?med(?).sn?/
• (US) enPR: ?med-?-s?n, IPA^(key): /?m?.d?.s?n/
  • (Weak-vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?m?.d?.s?n/

Noun

medicine (countable and uncountable, plural medicines)

1. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
2. A treatment or cure.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Innovation

     Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]

3. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

4. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
5. Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
6. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
7. (obsolete) Black magic, superstition.
8. (obsolete) A philter or love potion.
9. (obsolete) A physician.
10. (slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

Synonyms

• (substance): drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixir
• (treatment): regimen, course, program, prescription
• See also Thesaurus:medicine
• See also Thesaurus:pharmaceutical

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

medicine (third-person singular simple present medicines, present participle medicining, simple past and past participle medicined)

1. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.

See also

• therapy
• panacea

References

• Prescription Desk Reference, Prescription Drug Information:
• “medicine” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "medicine" in the Merriam-Webster On-line dictionary
• "medicine" in the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, Helicon Publishing LTD 2007.
• medicine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• medicine at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Noun

medicine f

1. plural of medicina

Anagrams

• endemici

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French medecine, with the i added back to reflect the original Latin medic?na.

Noun

medicine f (plural medicines)

1. medicine (act of practising medical treatment)

Descendants

• French: médecine

Spanish

Verb

medicine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of medicinar.