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