remedy

1. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil (synset 100260020)
   is a type of: correction, rectification - the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
   subtypes: salve - anything that remedies or heals or soothes
   same as: redress, remediation
2. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain (synset 104081594)
   is a type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
   subtypes:

   • acoustic - a remedy for hearing loss or deafness
   • antidote, counterpoison - a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
   • emetic, nauseant, vomit, vomitive - a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
   • lenitive - remedy that eases pain and discomfort
   • application, lotion - liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
   • magic bullet - a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease
   • balm, ointment, salve, unction, unguent - semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
   • alleviant, alleviator, palliative - remedy that alleviates pain without curing
   • catholicon, cure-all, nostrum, panacea - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
   • preventative, preventive, prophylactic - remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
   is a part of: intervention, treatment - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
   same as: curative, cure, therapeutic

1. Set straight or right (synset 200200276)
   "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
   is a type of: correct, rectify, right - make right or correct
   same as: amend, rectify, remediate, repair
2. Provide relief for (synset 200082316)
   "remedy his illness"
   referred to in: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
   is a type of: care for, treat - provide treatment for
   same as: relieve

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