Medicament

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  • noun. An agent that promotes recovery from injury or ailment; a medicine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A healing substance; anything used as a curative; a medicine or remedy; now, more especially, a healing substance applied externally.
  • noun. Medicinal effect; curative power; the property of healing or remedying disease or disorder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Anything used for healing diseases or wounds, especially a medicine; a medication; a healing application.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A medicine, medication or drug
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
  • Word Usage
    "The autoinjectors manufactured, for example by Owen Mumford, thus use very low pressures to inject the medicament, which is injected through a needle in a relatively slow stream."
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    drug  
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    APC  Antabuse  Fosamax  Metrazol  Zovirax  
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