1. (noun)medicine, medical specialty the branches of medicalscience that deal with nonsurgical techniques
2. (noun)medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
3. (noun)medicine, practice of medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduatetraining in a medicalschool and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
"he studied medicine at Harvard"
4. (noun)music, medicine punishment for one's actions
"you have to face the music"; "take your medicine"