medicina
medicine
noun meh-dee-SEE-nah Less Common
Origin: From Latin medicina (healing art)
Also means
medication
Usage Note
Medicina covers both the profession/field of medicine (estudiar medicina — to study medicine) and a specific medication or remedy (tomar la medicina — to take the medicine). For a single drug, medicamento or fármaco are often more precise, but medicina is widely understood. Medicina tradicional and medicina alternativa are common collocations.
Examples
"Estudia medicina en la universidad."
Natural Translation
She studies medicine at the university.

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