{
    "term": "medicine",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the study and treatment of diseases and injuries",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "advances in modern medicine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **study/practise medicine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a professor of medicine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "conventional/orthodox medicine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**alternative/complementary medicine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Acupuncture has long been a part of **traditional** Chinese **medicine**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rapidly developing **field of medicine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a greater emphasis on **preventive medicine**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She believed private medicine was a threat to the existence of the National Health Service."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave up general medicine to specialize in geriatric medicine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Modern medicine has not yet found a cure for the common cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are qualified in traditional Chinese medicine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She went on to practise medicine after completing her studies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Which branch of medicine are you going to train in?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Western medicine became widespread during the Soviet period."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare", "Scientific research"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["modern", "traditional", "folk"],
                "verb + medicine": ["train in", "qualify in", "practise/​practice"],
                "phrases": ["a branch of medicine"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a substance that you take in order to cure an illness, especially a liquid that you drink or swallow",
            "labels": "(British English)(informal)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Did you **take your medicine**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your doctor can **prescribe medicine** to ease your symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave me a dose of **cough medicine**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chinese herbal medicines"
                },
                {
                    "text": "medicine for a chest infection"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a medicine used to combat diarrhoea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Supplies of medicine are hard to get hold of during times of war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Food and medicines are being airlifted to the flood-hit area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We should not stop offering our pets veterinary medicines."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["powerful", "strong", "allergy"],
                "… of medicine": ["dose"],
                "verb + medicine": ["take", "swallow", "prescribe (somebody)"],
                "medicine + noun": ["cabinet", "chest", "bottle"],
                "preposition": ["medicine for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the best way of improving a situation, especially of making you feel happier",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Laughter is the best medicine."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the same bad treatment that you have given to others",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Let the bully have a taste of his own medicine."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmedsn//ˈmedɪsn/",
                "audio": "me/medicine/medicine__gb_5.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmedɪsn/",
                "audio": "me/medicine/medicine__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin medicina, from medicus ‘physician’."
}