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
Hast thou a single seraph-eyed medicament To ease our sorrow and our twitching woe?
From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick
Those who would hold that a substance is at one time a medicament, and at another time a poison, have much trouble in drawing the line between the beneficial and the poisonous effect.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
Prepared steel is a medicament proper for enlarged spleen.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
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