severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines

Of, or relating to, troy weight, Of or expressed in troy weight, noun_ the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains. The avoirdupois pound contains 7000 troy grains; so that 175 pounds troy equal 144 pounds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 117/175 or 1.09714 ounce avoirdupois. Troy weight when divided, the pound into 12 ounces, the ounce into 8 drams, the dram into 3 scruples, and the scruple into 20 grains, is called apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the 1/10000 part, a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains, an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War

The combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole, The combination of thesis and antithesis in the Hegelian dialectical process whereby a new and higher level of truth is produced,Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines

A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste, A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken, Figuratively, sweet, honeyed, or soothing words; flattery employed to disguise something distasteful, intransitive verb_ To make less distasteful or more appealing, To form granules; granulate, To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar, transitive verb_ To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with, To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten

a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic, any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority, A drudge, verb_ use recreational drugs, administer a drug to, intransitive verb_ obsolete To drudge; to toil laboriously, To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines, transitive verb_ To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp, to stupefy by a narcotic drug Also Fig, To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs

A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment, Law The acquisition of an easement or of title to property by use or occupancy that exceeds the time allowed to another to recover it by statutory right, In medicine, a statement, usually written, of the medicines or remedies to be used by a patient, and the manner of using them, adjective_ available only with a doctor's written prescription, of a drug, etc. only available with a physician's written prescription

Plural form of medicine

A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient, the act of treating with medicines or remedies, The act or process of medicating or imbuing with medicinal substances; the infusion of medicinal virtues

the act of treating with medicines or remedies