(informal, Canada, US) The Canada-United States border; the 49th parallel north: a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.

(traditional Chinese medicine) Herbal medicine modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets, oral solutions or dry suspensions, as opposed to herbs that require cooking.

A system of pseudo-medicine introduced by Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935–2017), based around an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and promoted as a cure for cancer.

(medicine) The practice of recommending a diagnostic test or medical treatment that is not necessarily the best option for the patient, but mainly serves to protect the physician against a potential malpractice lawsuit from the patient.

(otorhinolaryngology) Inflammation of the nasal mucosa caused by the overuse of topical nasal decongestants.

Alternative form of taste of one's own medicine

(medicine, dermatology) Diffuse hair loss of the scalp, caused by administration of various types of drugs, particularly chemotherapy.

(euphemistic, humorous) Recreational drugs.

plural of medicinal finger

(medicine) The principal subset of medical practice, comprising all aspects of medicine that happen at the point of care, as opposed to the aspects that happen in the clinical laboratory, imaging center, medical school classroom, data center, or other nonclinical settings; thus, for example, the radiology service and the pathology service are conceptually differentiable, such that the clinical components of the diagnostic process (e.g., history, physical examination, point of care testing) are categorizable as distinct from the nonclinical ones that interface with the clinical activity (e.g., radiologic interpretation, histopathologic analysis, data analysis).