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Cordial vs. Medicine — What's the Difference?

Cordial vs. Medicine — What's the Difference?

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Cordial

Warm and friendly
The atmosphere was cordial and relaxed

Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Cordial

Strongly felt
I earned his cordial loathing

Medicine

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery)
He made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine
The remarkable achievements of modern medicine

Cordial

A sweet fruit-flavoured drink
Wine cups and fruit cordials
A tall glass of blackcurrant cordial
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Medicine

A drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease
Your doctor will be able to prescribe medicines
Give her some medicine

Cordial

A pleasant-tasting medicine.

Medicine

(especially among some North American Indian peoples) a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing, protective, or other power
Fleur was murdering him by use of bad medicine

Cordial

Warm and sincere; friendly
A cordial welcome.
Very cordial relations.

Medicine

The science and art of diagnosing and treating disease or injury and maintaining health.

Cordial

Polite and respectful; formally pleasant
"He shook my hand, but not warmly.
He was cordial, but not amiable" (Oliver Sacks).

Medicine

The branch of this science encompassing treatment by drugs, diet, exercise, and other nonsurgical means.

Cordial

Strongly felt; fervent
A cordial abhorrence of waste.

Medicine

The practice of medicine.

Cordial

(Archaic) Invigorating; stimulating. Used especially of a beverage.

Medicine

A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury.

Cordial

A liqueur.

Medicine

Something that serves as a remedy or corrective
Medicine for rebuilding the economy.
Measures that were harsh medicine.

Cordial

An invigorating or medicinal drink; a tonic.

Medicine

Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native Americans.

Cordial

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

Medicine

Something, such as a ritual practice or sacred object, believed to control natural or supernatural powers or serve as a preventive or remedy.

Cordial

Radiating warmth and friendliness; genial.

Medicine

A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!

Cordial

(rare) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.

Medicine

Any treatment or cure.
A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?

Cordial

(obsolete) Proceeding from the heart.

Medicine

(uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.

Cordial

A concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.

Medicine

(uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons

Cordial

An individual serving of such a diluted drink.

Medicine

The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.
The evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century

Cordial

A pleasant-tasting medicine.

Medicine

(uncountable) Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.

Cordial

A liqueur prepared using the infusion process.

Medicine

Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.

Cordial

A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherries) and syrup or fondant.

Medicine

(obsolete) Black magic, superstition.

Cordial

Anything that revives or comforts, a stimulant.

Medicine

(obsolete) A philter or love potion.

Cordial

Proceeding from the heart.
A rib with cordial spirits warm.

Medicine

(obsolete) A physician.

Cordial

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
He . . . with looks of cordial loveHung over her enamored.

Medicine

(slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

Cordial

Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
Behold this cordial julep hereThat flames and dances in his crystal bounds.

Medicine

To treat with medicine.

Cordial

Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind.

Medicine

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

Cordial

Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.

Medicine

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a medication; a medicament; a remedy; physic.
By medicine, life may be prolonged.

Cordial

Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

Medicine

A philter or love potion.

Cordial

Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal

Medicine

A physician.

Cordial

Diffusing warmth and friendliness;
An affable smile
An amiable gathering
Cordial relations
A cordial greeting
A genial host

Medicine

Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.
The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.

Cordial

Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness;
Gave us a cordial reception
A hearty welcome

Medicine

Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.

Cordial

Sincerely or intensely felt;
A cordial regard for his visitor's comfort
A cordial abhorrence of waste
A fervent hope

Medicine

Short for Medicine man.

Medicine

Intoxicating liquor; drink.

Medicine

To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Medicine

The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

Medicine

(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Medicine

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries;
He studied medicine at Harvard

Medicine

Punishment for one's actions;
You have to face the music
Take your medicine

Medicine

Treat medicinally, treat with medicine

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