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                    "description": "(adj.adj.) : mĕdĭcīnus, a, um, adj.1. medicus\n* Of or belonging to a physician or surgeon, medical (as adj. only ante- and post-class.; as subst. class.).\n* Adj.: ars,the healing art, medicine,Varr. L. L. 5, § 93 Müll.; Hyg. Fab. 274; Aug. Conf. 4, 3.\n* Subst.: mĕdĭcīna, ae, f.\n* (Sc. ars.) The healing or medical art, medicine, surgery: ut medicina (ars est) valetudinis,Cic. Fin. 5, 6, 16; id. Off. 1, 42, 151: medicina, quae ex observatione salubrium atque his contrariorum reperta est,Quint. 2, 17, 9: tertiam esse partem medicinae, quae manu curet, i. e. surgery, Cels. prooem. 7: medicinam excolere,id. ib.: exercere,Cic. Clu. 63, 178: facere,Phaedr. 1, 14, 2: factitare,to practise,Quint. 7, 2, 26: clarus medicinā,Plin. 25, 2, 5, § 15.\n* (Sc. officina.) The shop of a physician or surgeon; the booth in which a physician waited on his patients and vended his medicines (rare; not in Cic.): in medicinis, in tonstrinis,Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6; cf.: veteres absolute dicebant pistrinam et sutrinam et medicinam, Don. Ter. Ad. 4,  2, 45 (the taberna of the physician is mentioned in Plin. 29, 1, 6, § 12).\n* (Sc. res.) A remedy, medicine.\n* Lit.: si medicus veniat, qui huic morbo facere medicinam potest,i. e. heal, cure,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 76: accipere medicinam,Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5.\n* Transf. *\n* Trop., a remedy, relief, antidote (a favorite word of Cic.): singulis medicinam consilii atque orationis meae afferam,Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 17: sed non egeo medicinā: me ipse consolor,id. Lael. 3, 10: sublevatio et medicina,id. Rep. 2, 34, 59: temporis,id. Fam. 5, 16, 6: doloris,id. Ac. 1, 3: laboris,id. Fin. 5, 19, 54: calamitatis,id. Tusc. 3, 22, 54: quae sanaret vitiosas partes rei publicae,id. Att. 2, 1, 7: crede mihi, non ulla tua'st medicina figurae,i. e. no means of rendering beautiful,Prop. 1, 2, 7: periculorum,Cic. Sest. 23, 51: malorum,Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 33: curae,id. P. 1, 2, 43.—In plur.: his quatuor causis totidem medicinae opponuntur,Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339.\n* The pruning of vines, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 191."
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