Pronunciation: English ['medsn] and American ['medsn]?
Medicine; Medical science
Lexical collocation:
1, verb+~: Practice medicine.
2. Adjective+~: Clinical medicine
3. Noun +~: State Medicine National Public Health Care
4. Preposition+~: a bottle of medicine
Common sentence patterns:
You know I gave up medicine and started studying physics.
You know I gave up medicine and studied physics.
My sister is a medical student.
My sister is a medical student.
The doctor of medicine is one of the richest members of American society.
The doctor of medicine is one of the richest members of American society.
Extended data:
Word usage
1, the basic meaning of medicine is "medicine", which is the general name of drugs, especially internal medicine; Can refer to drugs directly used for patients, non-medical raw materials; It can refer to synthetic drugs or one of them.
2. Medicine can also refer to "medical skill, medicine".
3. Drugs are generally uncountable nouns, but they can be used as countable nouns in the solution of "various drugs" and can have plural forms.