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medicinal

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for medicinal.

Editorial note

Its not mentioned in Wikipedia but people still consume small amounts for cinnabar (ore of mercury) for medicinal purposes.

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Quick take

Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of medicinal gathered in one view.

noun

Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

adjective

Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.

adjective

Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for medicinal.

adjective

Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.

adjective

Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificially sweet or bitter flavours.

Example sentences

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Its not mentioned in Wikipedia but people still consume small amounts for cinnabar (ore of mercury) for medicinal purposes.

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Fun fact: cocaine is technically legal in the United States for medicinal and, apparently, research purposes.

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Would be better off arguing any or all of the following: * Cannabis has demonstrated medicinal value, directly contradicting statute.

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Why was the non-medicinal use of certain compounds banned before there were users of the drug?

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Clean medicinal heroin is a quite safe drug (safe enough to be used for e.g.

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From a medicinal point of view different types of heart activities don't even exist.

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Quite similar, except for scale, as how medicinal chemists (and various support disciplines) work.

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You could live a long time without complications taking a medicinal dose of heroin.

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For the longest time I have been wondering when a pharma would try to patent Neem for tooth/other medicinal uses.

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If you can't cut an animal apart don't become a medicinal chemist.

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As a crusty old medicinal chemist, i offer the best rule of thumb (circa 16th century): [no matter what source it is] the dose makes the poison.

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I am worried about African/other poor countries that are unable to protect their indigenous medicinal use cases since they may lack the repository.

Quote examples

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It's very effective, it has truly medicinal uses, and is (for most folks) "western" medicine.

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Also, the origin of the FDA was a time when people could advertise and sell "medicines" which failed to treat or cure anything, and routinely lie about the ingredients and their medicinal properties (or lack thereof), a problem which the free market was conspicuously failing to solve.

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There's a reason the tech community has been at the forefront of innovation for the past century, moving at light-speed while the rest of the "warm and fuzzy" world (from educational, to medicinal, to political institutions) is trying to catch up, like they're all still in the friggen 19th century communicating via carrier pigeons.

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As such, it remains effectively silent on the retributive, vindictive, medicinal and expiatory dimensions of the death penalty That may be the case for "Evangelium Vitae and the 1997 Catechism", neither of which I've read, but it's not true of the US Council of Catholic Bishops statement, which I summarized downthread.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use medicinal in a sentence?

Its not mentioned in Wikipedia but people still consume small amounts for cinnabar (ore of mercury) for medicinal purposes.

What does medicinal mean?

Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

What part of speech is medicinal?

medicinal is commonly used as noun, adjective.