The difference between Medicine and Regimen

When used as nouns, medicine means a substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way, whereas regimen means orderly government.


Medicine is also verb with the meaning: to treat with medicine.

check bellow for the other definitions of Medicine and Regimen

  1. Medicine as a noun:

    A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.

  2. Medicine as a noun:

    A treatment or cure.

  3. Medicine as a noun:

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

  4. Medicine as a noun:

    The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.

  5. Medicine as a noun:

    Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.

  6. Medicine as a noun:

    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.

  7. Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

    black magic, superstition.

  8. Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

    A philter or love potion.

  9. Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

    A physician.

  10. Medicine as a noun (slang):

    recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks

  1. Medicine as a verb (rare, obsolete):

    To treat with medicine.

  1. Regimen as a noun:

    Orderly government; system of order; administration.

  2. Regimen as a noun:

    Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

  3. Regimen as a noun (grammar):

    object

  4. Regimen as a noun (grammar):

    A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

  5. Regimen as a noun (medicine, dated):

    Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.