Health and Medicine: med (heal; care for)

Learn this list of words containing med meaning "heal" or "care for."
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  1. Medicaid
    government-funded health care for those with low income
  2. medical
    relating to the study or practice of medicine
  3. Medicare
    federally administered health care for older individuals
  4. medicate
    administer a substance that treats or prevents disease
  5. medication
    something that treats or prevents the symptoms of disease
  6. medicinal
    treating, preventing or alleviating the symptoms of disease
  7. medicine
    something that treats or prevents symptoms of disease
  8. paramedic
    a person trained to give emergency medical treatment
  9. remediable
    capable of being corrected or redressed
  10. remediate
    set straight or right
  11. remedy
    a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
  12. remedial
    tending to cure or restore to health
  13. remediation
    act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Created on Thu Apr 02 16:45:29 EDT 2026 (updated Thu Apr 02 16:47:30 EDT 2026)

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