noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a food/medicine/clothes cupboard British English
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The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.
a prescription drug/medicine
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Not everyone can afford the cost of prescription drugs.
alternative medicine/therapies (= medical treatment that is not based on the usual western methods )
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Acupuncture is widely used by practitioners of alternative medicine.
Ayurvedic medicine
Chinese medicine
clinical medicine/experience/training etc (= medicine etc that deals directly with people, rather than with research or ideas )
complementary medicine
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acupuncture and other types of complementary medicines
cough medicine/cough mixture/cough syrup (= liquid containing medicine for a cough )
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You should take some cough medicine.
forensic evidence/science/medicine etc
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Forensic experts found traces of blood in the car.
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a career in forensic science
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a forensic pathologist
herbal medicine
internal medicine
medicine man
patent medicine
preventive medicine
private medicine
socialized medicine
tropical diseases/medicine (= diseases that are common in hot countries or the study of these diseases )
western medicine
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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Needle Works Acupuncture is widely used in human alternative medicine .
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Clinical ecology is one of the more controversial forms of alternative medicine .
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It must be stressed that there are important differences between stage hypnotism and the techniques used in alternative medicine .
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There are so many forms of alternative medicine and there's no doubt it's getting more popular.
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We can not dismiss claims about, say, alternative medicine or acupuncture a priori.
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Tony Smith claims that the purpose of our newsletter is to support alternative medicine .
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In Homoeopathy and many other types of alternative medicine the patient's illness is placed in a much larger context.
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Unorthodox or alternative medicine was not on trial.
clinical
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Differences between clinical medicine and public health in their views on quality assurance are also illustrated.
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Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages.
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The reports illustrate the tensions between clinical medicine and public health in the formulation of health policy.
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The objective is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of normal human biology with aspects relevant to clinical medicine .
complementary
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The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects.
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The practices of complementary medicine fall roughly into the following categories: 1.
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So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity?
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In my view, scientists have a crucial role to play in the rapprochement of conventional and complementary medicine .
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Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine .
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Most forms of complementary medicine are framed in terms of traditional medical systems from other cultures.
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Today many physicians admit that complementary medicine has some potential and deserves a fair trial.
conventional
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This tremendous progress of conventional medicine in the present century has confirmed belief in the treatment by opposites.
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Currently, the problems people go online with the most are the problems that conventional medicine helps the least.
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The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects.
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In my view, scientists have a crucial role to play in the rapprochement of conventional and complementary medicine .
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Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
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Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it.
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Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
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Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine .
forensic
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When she'd first qualified in forensic medicine he'd been a young sergeant.
good
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Good nursing is the essential complement to good medicine .
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But, because of better medicine and nutrition, people live longer and their money may run out before they do.
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Yes, crushed apple was a very good medicine when properly blended with glucose and sterile milk for small stomachs.
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Having Louella come and live with me will be the best medicine in the world.
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This year you're receiving a rare double dose of the best heavenly medicine .
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Uncle Billy Watson doeth good like a medicine , he thought, paraphrasing the scriptures.
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Recovery is the best medicine for the market, but it must be sustainable.
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A former teacher at Longlands College, Middlesbrough, Pat always believes in laughter as the best medicine for loneliness.
herbal
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Other herbal medicines should be regarded with greater caution.
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They studied herbal medicine as an alternative to the drugs of the medical profession.
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There's a large dramatically-styled amphitheatre and a small clinic with herbal medicines .
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Organic foods, herbal medicines , and handmade goods were preferred to their industrially produced counterparts.
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Some herbal medicines may be safe; others may interact with other medication you are taking.
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Bloodletting is popular among the doctors and apothecaries, but herbal medicine , witchcraft and spells are rampant in the general population.
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The widow, a Quaker, would seem to have been a devotee of herbal medicine and various other quack cures.
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The good doctor Guruji treats madness with herbal medicine in a village near Delhi.
holistic
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In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
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It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
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Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
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She sent him books on holistic medicine and nutrition.
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The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
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The concepts of self-defense and self-repair are central contributions of holistic medicine .
internal
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Smith has been practicing internal medicine in Mesa since 1976.
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Physicians trained in internal medicine are attached and function as consultants.
modern
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The concerns of older people about their future health care probably reflect beliefs about modern medicine and priorities within the medical profession.
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Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine .
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In a way, though, that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine .
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However, it was found in nearly all those cancer patients whom modern medicine could not help.
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The clinical application of devices or materials which contact blood is of major importance in modern medicine .
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That perspective later reappeared as he witnessed what he considered the rampant missteps of modern allopathic medicine .
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Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine ?
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Similarly, the rise of modern medicine developed at the expense of midwives and village healers, most of whom were women.
new
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Based on the breakthrough, researchers were working to develop new medicines that would specifically target certain kinds of cancer.
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The meeting took place in Manhattan a few weeks ago to bring attention to new medicines that are helping schizophrenics avoid hospitalization.
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She had been diagnosed the previous summer with congestive heart failure, but for a year a new medicine worked well.
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This was the first new class of medicine to be introduced in 40 years for Type I diabetes.
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Skill and luck kept the new medicine men alive.
orthodox
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We therefore should aim at integration rather than separation from orthodox medicine .
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Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology's diagnoses.
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It's complementary to orthodox medicine .
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In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
patent
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Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle.
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We are exposed to chemicals everywhere, in oven cleaners, detergents, patent medicines , hair sprays-everywhere.
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For instance, he collects on his little card index all references in Wells to feeding, eating, and patent medicines .
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Now, when I stopped at the Emporium, I looked at the patent medicine display first.
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He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
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The new display focuses primarily on the role of patent medicines from 1870 to 1906.
preventive
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We have received clear evidence from opticians in our constituencies that the imposition of charges runs contrary to the concept of preventive medicine .
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There exists no preventive medicine for the pain of feeling excluded or underappreciated.
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The appointment of John Simon as first Medical Officer heralded the replacement of the grandiose principles of sanitary engineering by preventive medicine .
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It was hardly surprising that preventive medicine , and state medicine in particular, refused to give unconditional support to eugenics.
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He says physicians should be well-trained in standard medical care and also grounded in preventive medicine and healing alternatives.
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Such apathy is indicative of the generally low emphasis and under-investment in health education and preventive medicine in Britain.
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Laughter and fun should also be on your preventive medicine shelf.
private
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Under what circumstances would you use private medicine ?
public
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Public health medicine and purchasing health care Public health medicine is a goal driven medical specialty.
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Thus Whitty and Jones argued recently that public health medicine embraces the purchasing role at its peril.
traditional
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But for the present, crystal users recommend using their treatment to complement, rather than replace, traditional medicine .
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He is among a growing minority of physicians combining the standard care of traditional medicine with certain nontraditional treatments and preventive measures.
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Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
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Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
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Also he knows a lot about traditional medicines , which, by the way, I believe in one hundred per cent.
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Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people's daily life.
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Any genuinely popular and empowering health system could not, therefore, ignore or bypass traditional medicine .
tropical
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He then went into research in tropical medicine .
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The substance of her treatise on the Black Death had been carefully checked with a microbiologist and a specialist in tropical medicine .
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Leo would be coming back to New York now to work in a hospital where he could specialize in tropical medicine .
veterinary
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Harry Wilson, services to veterinary medicine .
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His doctorate is in veterinary medicine .
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It has been traditionally treated with indigenous veterinary medicine .
western
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And while there are fundamental differences between Eastern and Western medicine , this is no new age fad.
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Officially Mataji could cure anything but perhaps western medicine hurried her along?
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This is an insight that western medicine has only recently begun to acknowledge.
■ NOUN
cabinet
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There are the cleaning products kept under the sink and a well-stocked medicine cabinet to be explored.
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There was a stainless-steel sink, and a mirrored medicine cabinet .
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Barbara padded across the carpet to the en-suite bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet above the basin.
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By then, it was all over but the trip to the medicine cabinet to find the nearest aspirin bottle.
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These kits really are a must for any home medicine cabinet .
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Now it seems that Mom has her head in the medicine cabinet and divorce papers in her hand.
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A few days later I found some use-them-once plastic hypodermics in the medicine cabinet .
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A perusal of the medicine cabinet could have told them that much.
chest
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It was well fitted out, with a formidable medicine chest .
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Dana fights his way through the protocol surrounding the medicine chest , has a recipe drawn up, and delivers his balm.
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Only, there on its side on top of the medicine chest was an unstoppered bottle.
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Both statements agree: Get your vitamins and minerals from your plate, not your medicine chest .
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The home medicine chest Every Koi keeper should have one of these, stored in a cool, dark place.
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Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach.
health
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Public health medicine and purchasing health care Public health medicine is a goal driven medical specialty.
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Thus Whitty and Jones argued recently that public health medicine embraces the purchasing role at its peril.
man
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On the Reservation, being a medicine man meant literally that these days.
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Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
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Hundreds of such carpet-patterns lie folded in the brains of a few medicine men , still ready for ceremonial recreation and use.
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Yet medicine during that period was completely different, handled by leech-wielding doctors and medicine men .
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Present-day medicine men use wicker baskets and reed arrows.
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Forbes is a one-bottle medicine man .
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He spoke Navajo and once sang with a Navajo medicine man at the bedside of a sick girl.
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Primitive myth comes to us through the kindness of shamans, village elders, witches, warlocks, and medicine men .
■ VERB
buy
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We had to take jobs with Del Monte, but they didn't pay us enough money to buy medicines as well as food.
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You could have come and politely asked me to buy you some medicine .
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He often can not afford to buy medicine for his eight children.
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I already knew what they would face, having gone to one to buy some medicine for Zali.
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But government's interest also lies in buying medicines for the health service at lowest cost.
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The health ministry says it is forced to buy more expensive medicines from the big drug manufacturers because of international patent agreements.
give
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He said he was not given any medicine , and no doctor saw him.
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Of course, he'd given up medicine to pursue comedy, but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others.
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You can partially relieve muscles sore from coughing by giving simple pain medicine such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
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Help her! Give her some medicine !
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Has this doctor given you any medicine ?
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We certainly can not afford to give away vouchers for medicine , for No. 2 pencils, for diapers.
need
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Their ` growth promoters' include drugs that might be needed in medicine .
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This time she was told that she needed medicine , and fast.
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Why do disable people need medicine ?
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A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount.
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Also, there's a great deal of sickness for which we need medicines .
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What I needed was medicine , real bad.
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For all his invasive tendencies, Boswell does not tell us why Johnson needed medicine .
practice
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The doctors were practicing medicine , which is what society expects that we do.
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Bachynsky went back to practicing medicine .
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Doctors are not required to practice flawless medicine .
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It changed the way they practice medicine somewhat.
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Smith has been practicing internal medicine in Mesa since 1976.
practise
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They're carrying placards supporting a doctor who practises environmental medicine .
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He was probably the Robert Pemel who obtained an archiepiscopal licence to practise medicine around 1632.
prescribe
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The legislation also bans the practice of paying incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive brand name medicines .
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This worker can prescribe and dispense medicine , assuming a major function of a psychiatrist, for less money.
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The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case.
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The amount is not fixed firmly and the doctor will in no circumstances be told to stop prescribing necessary medicines .
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Treatment was not merely a matter of prescribing herbal medicines , but a whole regimen which controlled the diet and the life-style.
provide
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Underresourced hospitals struggle to provide medicines and care.
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The Urgent Care Center provides industrial medicine and workers' compensation examinations for local companies.
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Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need.
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They harbour some of the world's most endangered wildlife and provide vital food and medicines .
sell
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Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle.
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Drug companies also are borrowing techniques used in marketing human drugs to sell pet medicines .
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SmithKline could also benefit from Beecham's experience in selling over-the-counter medicines .
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They were shopkeepers who sold medicines or cures and established their right to treat the sick during the plague.
study
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Leaving school at the age of 14 to study medicine , he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Worcester.
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They studied herbal medicine as an alternative to the drugs of the medical profession.
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Some of them were mature students studying medicine , dentistry, law, engineering.
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Daantjie Siebert, told the prison warder that Biko had studied medicine and yoga and was probably faking his injuries.
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The prize for successful candidates, a chance to study medicine in the former Czechoslovakia.
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Schools in Sao Leopoldo, the parents felt, were sorely lacking, and Joviane wanted to study medicine .
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This left my father's parents badly off, but they managed to send him to Oxford, where he studied medicine .
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Realising how useful it would be to have a doctor in their band, Magdalena was put to studying medicine .
take
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He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine .
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They can take medicines and watch their diets and living habits.
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He sees no need to take medicine .
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They were far more likely to take medicine for the sheep which suffered from anthrax, toxaemia and fluke.
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Patients whose ability to take medicines is a critical issue could be encouraged to use the same community pharmacy on each occasion.
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But many patients taking these medicines continue to have problems controlling their blood-sugar levels.
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The Castleford star took medicine for a throat and chest infection before the second Test in Auckland.
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She stopped taking the antipsychotic medicine .
use
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Needle Works Acupuncture is widely used in human alternative medicine .
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Herbs have historically been used in medicine to the extent that many are reported to have magical properties.
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They are used in medicine for the treatment of cancer and to detect thyroid gland disorders.
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Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
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Thereupon the Chief gave me some white, blue, yellow, and shining herbs to use as medicines .
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This had evolved from the ancient single red R. gallica and had long been used in medicine .
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Many teen-agers mistakenly assume that if they feel well, they can stop using these medicines .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conventional medicine
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Currently, the problems people go online with the most are the problems that conventional medicine helps the least.
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It works in a totally different way from conventional medicine, which is known to Homoeopathic practitioners as Allopathy.
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Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
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Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it.
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Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
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This tremendous progress of conventional medicine in the present century has confirmed belief in the treatment by opposites.
folk medicine/remedy
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And as in folk medicine generally, if you believe it will help, it probably will.
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GUHgl-MUHgl n. A folk remedy for sore throats and colds.
holistic medicine/treatment/healing etc
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Finding a therapist to help you Many complementary therapies exist which are concerned with holistic healing.
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Herbalism: a holistic treatment involving the use of herbal remedies specifically chosen and blended for different conditions.
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In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
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It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
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Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
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She sent him books on holistic medicine and nutrition.
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The concepts of self-defense and self-repair are central contributions of holistic medicine.
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The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Medicines should be kept out of children's reach.
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Chinese herbal medicine
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Jane is studying medicine .
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Many of these people have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it.
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So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity?
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The discovery of penicillin revolutionized Western medicine .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was taken to the hospital by police, where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious.
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How are you going to get your medicine ?
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I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me.
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In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
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In the United Kingdom it's driven by medicine and there aren't many posts for social scientists.
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It was well fitted out, with a formidable medicine chest.
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No medicine , no therapy, can bring her back.
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Preventative medicine and good health rather than repairs were his philosophy.