Vocabulary-Medicine is the list of words denoting Medicine.

• Epidemic…A disease affecting many persons at the same time and at the same place
Pandemic…A disease widely epidemic
Endemic…A disease confined to a particular district or a place
Sporadic…A disease affecting widely scattered groups of people
Antiseptic…A substance which destroys or weakens germs
Cocaine…A substance used by a dentist to deaden the gum and nerve
Chloroform…A substance used in surgery to produce unconsciousness
Anesthetic…Ant medicine which produces insensibility
Anodyne…A medicines which alleviates pain
Cicatrices…The mark or scar left after the wound is healed
Cicatrix… The mark or scar left after the wound is healed
Toothpaste…The power or paste used to cleanse the teeth
Dentifrice… The power or paste used to cleanse the teeth
Antidote…A medicine to counteract poison
• Stethoscope…An instrument used by doctors for listening to the heart-beats
Immune…Free or exempt from infection
• Isolate…To place apart to prevent from infecting others
• Narcotic…A medicine for producing sleep
Opiate… A medicine for producing sleep
• Emetic…A medicine for causing vomiting
• Quarantine…Confinement to one place to avoid spreading infections
• Amputate…To cut off a part of person’s body which is infected
• Panacea…A cure for all diseases
• Convalescent…gradual recovery from illness
• Ambulance…A vehicle to carry sick people to the hospital
• Anemia…Want of blood
• Pulmonary…Affecting lungs
• Deodorant…a substance to keep down evil smells
• Diagnose…To be able to tell the nature of the disease by the symptoms
• Prognosis…A forecast of the result of a disease
Fumigate…To disinfect by smoke
• Pathology…The science of the diseases of the human-body
• Culex…The mosquito which transmits filarial
• Anopheles… The mosquito which transmits malaria
• Stegomyia… The mosquito which transmits yellow fever

Culex mosquito cause filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, avian malaria.