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 | anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual |
punishment for one's actions | semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation |
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | smug self-serving earnestness |
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm |