Medicine vs. Pharmaceutical — What's the Difference?

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.

Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery)

A pharmaceutical product or preparation.

A drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease

Of, or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

(especially among some North American Indian peoples) a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing, protective, or other power

A pharmaceutical or pharmacological preparation or product; a drug.

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

Drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment

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

Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists;

The practice of medicine.

Of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment

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

Something that serves as a remedy or corrective

Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native Americans.

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

A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.

Any treatment or cure.

(uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

(uncountable) The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.

The profession and practice of nonsurgical physicians as sometimes distinguished from that of surgeons.

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

(obsolete) Black magic, superstition.

(obsolete) A philter or love potion.

(obsolete) A physician.

(slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

To treat with medicine.

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

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a medication; a medicament; a remedy; physic.

A philter or love potion.

A physician.

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.

Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.

Short for Medicine man.

Intoxicating liquor; drink.

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

The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

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

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;

Punishment for one's actions;

Treat medicinally, treat with medicine