dosage vs medicine

medicine vs dosage

dosage and medicine both are nouns.

dosage is not a verb while medicine is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dosage	Yes	No	No	No
medicine	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, medicine is a hypernym of dosage; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than dosage:

dosage: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of dosage include medicament, medication, medicinal drug.

dosage (noun)	medicine (noun)
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time	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
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time	punishment for one's actions
	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

dosage (verb)	medicine (verb)
	treat medicinally, treat with medicine

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