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COLD MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cold medicine mean? 

COLD MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun COLD MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common coldplay

  Familiarity information: COLD MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLD MEDICINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cold medicine" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)


 Context examples 


EXAMPLE(S): Administration of cold medicine may be evaluated as a cause of an adverse event.

(Evaluated Activity Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)



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