the art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.-a specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.-specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.-a physician.-to treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.-to work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.