medicament
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of medicament
1535–45; < Latin medicāmentum remedy, physic, equivalent to medicā ( rī ) to cure + -mentum -ment. See medicate
Example Sentences
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I have to bring every kind of instrument, every kind of medicament, everything you could think of in two bags: one large suitcase and one satchel that goes over my shoulders.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
The Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time.
From Time Magazine Archive
In all military hospitals, food is to be regarded as the principal medicament.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
They said that a medicament which the countess used herself could not possibly do Milly any harm.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
He then put on a bandage dipped in some medicament of his own composition.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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