Crossword clues for medicament
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Medicament \Med"i*ca*ment\, n. [L. medicamentum, fr. medicare, medicari, to heal: cf. F. m['e]dicament. See Medicable.] Anything used for healing diseases or wounds, especially a medicine; a medication; a healing application.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "medical skill; a medicinal compound," from Middle French médicament (15c.), from Latin medicamentum "drug, remedy," literally "means of healing," from medicare "to heal, cure" (see medication).
Wiktionary
n. A medicine, medication or drug
WordNet
n. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicinal drug]
Usage examples of "medicament".
The fresh root of the Horse radish is a powerful stimulant by reason of its ardent and pungent volatile principle, whether it be taken as a medicament, or be applied externally to any part of the body.
For which reason, in small diluted doses, the same medicament will curatively meet this train of symptoms when occurring as a morbid state.
Hence it may be inferred that absinthe contains really a narcotic poison which should prevent its being employed as a liqueur, or as a homely medicament, to any excess.
Necessary pleasures and all the activity of the senses it will employ only for medicament and assuagement lest its work be impeded.
The medicament consisted of transparent capsules, three quarters full of a dark-brown powder.
He had lived so much among his medicaments that he had at last become himself a drug, and to have him pass through a sick-chamber was a stronger dose than a conscientious disciple of Hahnemann would think it safe to administer.
The medicaments recommended comprise nearly everything which can in some way or other be swallowed, whether in solid, mucilaginous, or liquid form.
The medicaments compounded of these incongruous substances were often very complicated.
He prepared his medicaments and his fragrant essences, merely as a mechanical art, and without pretending to fathom their method of physical action.
That in itself separated it from the vast majority of the medicaments he knew, which displayed their virtue by being either sweet or aggressively vile.
He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.
It might be the champagne, which should really be classed as a valuable social medicament, and reimbursed by the Securite Sociale.
For which reason, in small diluted doses, the same medicament will curatively meet this train of symptoms when occurring as a morbid state.
Necessary pleasures and all the activity of the senses it will employ only for medicament and assuagement lest its work be impeded.
He had lived so much among his medicaments that he had at last become himself a drug, and to have him pass through a sick-chamber was a stronger dose than a conscientious disciple of Hahnemann would think it safe to administer.