Reverse Dictionary: MEDICINE

ADJECTIVES
► AESCULAPIAN ► ESCULAPIAN belonging to Aesculapius (the god of medicine), or to the healing art; medicinal → 1622
► COMFORTATIVE strengthening, reviving, as medicine, food, etc. → 1398 obs.
► IATRIC relating to a physician or to medicine; medical → 1851
► INDURANT of medicines: having the quality of hardening → 1678
► LAETIFICANT of a medicine: cheering, stimulating → 1627
► PANCRASTICAL good for all diseases, of the nature of a panacea → 1698 obs.
► PANPHARMACAL pert. to a universal medicine → 1657 obs.
► POLYPHARMACAL using many drugs or medicines → 1656 obs.
► SINGULAR of remedies, medicines, etc.: excellent; highly efficacious or beneficial → a1340 obs.

NOUNS
► APPODELL-DOCK a soap liniment; hence, any medicine; alcohol → 1830 Amer. dial.
► ATOMIC COCKTAIL a liquid oral medication containing a radioactive isotope → 1949 US medical sl.
► BRAIN-STUFF medicine or food for the brain → 1911
► BROKEN DOSE a small quantity of medicine administered at intervals → 1806 Amer. dial.
► COMFORTATIVE a strengthening or reviving medicine → 1398 obs.
► DIET DRINK a medicinal drink → 1778 US
► DILL-TEA a soothing medicine or syrup given to children to deaden pain → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DILL-WATER a soothing medicine or syrup given to children to deaden pain → 1889 Eng. dial.
► DOCTOR STUFF medicine → 1831 Amer. dial. arch.
► DRENCH any medicine forcibly given → 1750 US
► FAKE stuff used in patent medicines; a patent medicine; a so-called cure → c1870 showmen’s usage
► FAKEMS quack medicines → 20C sl.
► GAMMY STUFF spurious soap or medicine → 1839 UK criminals’ sl.
► IATROLOGY the science of medicine → 1855
► JOLLOP a purgative → 1920s sl.
► LAVATIVE a draught to wash down food or medicine → 1633 obs.
► LEECHCRAFT remedy, medicine → c888 arch.
► LEECHDOM a medicine, remedy → a900 arch.
► LENOCINY an enticing medicine → 1657 obs.
► MEDDICK ► MEDIC medicine → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOISER a medicine which makes a sick person improve in health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUTI medicine of any kind → 1908 S. Afr.
► OPADILLDOCK ► OPEDILDOC ► OPODELDOC ► OPYDILDOCK a soap liniment; hence, any medicine; alcohol → 1733
► PANACY panacea, a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases → a1690 obs.
► PANCHREST a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases → 1727 obs.
► PANCHRESTON a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases → 1632 obs.
► PHARMACOMANIA a mania for medicines → 1991 (Bk.)
► PHYSIC medicine → L16 colloq.
► PICK-ME-UP a tonic medicine → 1900 sl.
► PUNK a liquid or salve sold as a household remedy; patent medicine → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SICK-BAY COCKTAIL a dose of medicine → c1925 Royal Navy usage
► SLIBBER-SLABBER a compound or concoction of a messy, repulsive, or nauseous nature, used especially for medicinal purposes → 1566 obs.
► STUFF a term of contempt for anything to be swallowed, esp. medicine → 1605 colloq.
► TRUCK medicine → c1770 Amer. dial. arch.

NOUNS – PERSON
► PHARMACOPOLIST one who sells drugs or medicines; a druggist; an apothecary → 1651
► POLYPHARMACIST a person who takes multiple medicines or drugs for concurrent disorders; also, one who prescribes such a course of action → 1886
► QUACKSALVER an ignorant person who pretends to a knowledge of medicine or of wonderful remedies → 1579

VERBS
► LECHNE to cure, to heal; to administer medicine → c900 obs.
► PHYSIC to treat or dose with medicine, esp., with a purgative → 14C colloq.