medicine

1. N-UNCOUNT.

Medicine is the treatment of illness and injuries by doctors and nurses.

• He pursued a career in medicine.     
• I was interested in alternative medicine and becoming an aromatherapist.     
• Psychiatry is an accepted branch of medicine.

2. N-MASS.

Medicine is a substance that you drink or swallow in order to cure an illness.

• People in hospitals are dying because of shortage of medicine.     
• herbal medicines.