Thesaurus results for MEDICAMENT

medicament

noun

mi-ˈdi-kə-mənt

Definition of medicament

as in medication

a substance or preparation used to treat disease in the 19th century a physician's bag of medicaments most likely included powerful opiates

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Recent Examples of medicament Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing. — Justina Lee, CNBC, 29 May 2026 The doctors here have every modern medicament, but candidly confessed that the answer to the malady is beyond them. — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 If the medicaments are innocuous, there’s little harm except to the patients’ pocketbooks. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020 At the moment, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB involves taking highly toxic medicaments for as long as two years. — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019

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Health care providers may also recommend sleep medications for short-term relief, but these are generally viewed as temporary tools rather than permanent solutions, explains Troxel.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Citing medical privacy laws, Ryan Gustin, a spokesperson for CoreCivic, declined to answer questions about Bartko’s allegations that her medication was confiscated and withheld from her for nearly two weeks.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

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One of the first focuses under the new corporate structure will be addressing cancer drug affordability, Shah said, with a goal of accelerating the adoption of lower-cost biosimilars, which are clinically equivalent drugs akin to generic drugs.

— Ian Thomas, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Scott’s narrator, Louise, is a musician of sorts, a frequent drug user, and a desperate diehard romantic, forever dogged by her ex-girlfriend Alex.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

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Everything from medicine to politics to basketball is based on the idea of working as a collective.

— Eden Laase, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Iranian weapon stockpiles are also likely being depleted, and citizens are struggling to access basic goods – including food and medicine.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

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With only Lucien, a freshly out twink with more heart than abs, still by his side, Jim must race to find a cure before the disease erases the community that once worshipped him.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
Seventy-one-year-old Bruce Willis, as is well known, has been living with frontotemporal dementia since 2023, a degenerative neurological disease that has no cure.

— Roberta Mercuri, Vanity Fair, 30 Aug. 2026