[med.i.cine] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L medicina, fr. fem. of medicinus of a physician, fr. medicus] (13c) 1 a: a substance or preparation used in treating disease b: something that affects well-being
2. a: the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease b: the branch of medicine concerned with the nonsurgical treatment of disease
3: a substance (as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease
4: an object held in traditional American Indian belief to give control over natural or magical forces; also: magical power or a magical rite -- medicine vt