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medicine

/ˈmed.|ɪ|.sən/

Translation

n [u]
› (ciencia)
⇨ medicina
She decided to study medicine
Decidió estudiar medicina
to practise medicine
ejercer la medicina
n [c, u]
›
⇨ medicina
to take one's medicine
tomar su medicina
⇨ medicamento
Véase tb: Doctor of Medicine; medicine cabinet
(Definition of medicine nn from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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