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Definition: Medicament |
MedicamentNoun1. Something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "medicament" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A medicinal substance or agent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MedicamentSynonyms: medication (n), medicinal drug (n), medicine (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Noun: remedy, help, cure, redress; medicine, medicament; diagnosis, medical examination; medical treatment; surgery; preventive medicine. |
Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Medicament |
| Non-English Usage: "Medicament" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (medicament), Romanian (drug, medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical, physic). |
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Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
medicament | 33 |
assurance medicament | 3 |
effexor medicament xr | 2 |
fabre medicament pierre | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "medicament"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mjekim (cure, medication, medicine, treatment), ilaç (cure, drug, healer, medicine, medicines, physic, potion, prescription, remedy, troche), bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herb, herbage, local, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, pub, saloon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علاج (curative, medication, remedy, therapy, treatment), شفاء (cure, healing, recovery, recuperation, restoration, resurrection), دواء (drug, medication, medicine, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | медикамент, лекарство (cure, drug, medicine, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 药剂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | medikament, lék (antidote, cure, drug, medicine, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | medikament (drug, medicine, pharmaceutical), laegemiddel (medical accessory, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | medicament, geneesmiddel (drug, medicine, pharmaceutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مداوا (Therapy), دوا (Medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | médicament (medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Medikament (drug, medication, medicine, pharmaceutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φάρμακο (drug, medication, medicine, remedy), θεραπευτικό μέσο (medical accessory, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תרופה (cure, drug, healing, medicine, officinal, remedy), סם מרפא. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | orvosság (doctor's stuff, drug, fix, medicine, mixture, pharmaceutical, remedy), gyógyszer (drug, medication, medicine, neurotic, oral administration of a drug, pharmaceutical, pill, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | obat (cure, drug, medicine, potion, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | medicamento (medical accessory, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edicamentmay medicamento (drug, medicine, pharmacon, remedy). (various references) medicament (drug, medicine, pharmaceutical, physic). (various references) медикамент (medication), лекарство (cure, decongestant, drug, medicine, physic, preparation, remedy). (various references) medikament, lek (cure, drug, medicine, remedy). (various references) medicamento (drug, medicine, pharmaceutical, physic). (various references) läkemedel (curative, drug, medicine, medicines, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, remedy). (various references) ilaç (ball, curative, cure, drug, medicine, physic, pill, remedy). (various references) медикамент (medicine), застосовувати ліки, ліки (cure, drug, pharmacy, physic, preparation, remedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "medicament": medicamentous, medicaments. (additional references) | |
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"Medicament" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mediamen, Medicamen, redicament. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "medicament" (pronounced 'Med"i*ca*ment'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acknowledgment, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advertisement, Advisement, Affamishment, Affeerment, Afforcement, Afforciament, Affordment, Affranchisement, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggrandizement, Aggroupment, Agistment. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-m-n-t" | |
-1 letter: mincemeat. | |
-2 letters: decimate, dementia, meantime, medicate. | |
-3 letters: cementa, centime, enacted, endemic, enticed, etamine, matinee, meatmen, mediant, mediate, menaced, nematic. | |
-4 letters: acetin, aedine, aidmen, ammine, anemic, anteed, cadent, canted, cement, centai, cetane, cinema, daimen, decane, decant, deceit, decent, demean, dement, detain, edenic, emetic, emetin, enatic, endite, entice, etamin, iceman, icemen, ideate, immane, inmate, itemed, madmen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: medicaments. | |
+3 letters: decamethonium, medicamentous. | |
+4 letters: decamethoniums, excommunicated, recommendation. | |
+5 letters: recommendations, semidocumentary. | |
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