ˈmɛdɪkəmənt ˈmɛdɪkeɪt mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən ˈmed(ɪ).sɪn ˈmɛ.dɪ.sɪn ˈmed(ɪ).sɪn ˈmɛ.dɪ.sɪn ˈmjuːzɪk ˈmjuzɪk treat medicinally, treat with medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries he studied medicine at Harvard punishment for one's actions you have to face the music take your medicine (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques