| medicine |
| 1. n. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way. | |
| 2. n. A treatment or cure. | |
| 3. n. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness. | |
| 4. n. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine. | |
| 5. n. Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc. | |
| 6. n. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) black magic, superstition. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A philter or love potion. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A physician. | |
| 10. n. (slang) recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks | |
| 11. v. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine. | |
| psychology |
| 1. n. The study of the human mind. | |
| 2. n. The study of human behavior. | |
| 3. n. The study of animal behavior. | |
| 4. n. The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity. | |
| pertaining |
| 1. v. present participle of pertain | |
| 2. n. Something that pertains; an appurtenance. | |
| pertain |
| 1. v. (intransitive) to belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) to relate, to refer, be relevant to | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| physical |
| 1. adj. Having to do with the body. | |
| Are you feeling any physical effects? | |
| 2. adj. Having to do with the material world. | |
| It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind. | |
| 3. adj. Involving bodily force. | |
| This team plays a very physical game, so watch out. | |
| 4. adj. Having to do with physics. | |
| The substance has a number of interesting physical properties. | |
| 5. adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation. | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative. | |
| 7. n. Physical examination. | |
| How long has it been since your last physical? | |
| diseases |
| 1. n. plural of disease | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of disease | |
| disease |
| 1. n. (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. | |
| The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc. | |
| 3. n. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. | |
| 4. v. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate. | |
| 5. v. To infect with a disease. | |
| symptoms |
| 1. n. plural of symptom | |
| symptom |
| 1. n. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash. | |
| 2. n. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable. | |
| etc |
| 1. adv. alternative form of etc. | |
