(& -a, n.) medical treatment; healing; medical practice.

the art of healing, practice of medicine DN.i.10 (dāraka˚ infant healing); Snp.927 (˚ṃ māmako na seveyya)
■ See also tekiccha.

from last

physician; a doctor.

of tikicchati

treats medically, cures (a person or a complaint)

of tikicchati

of tikicchati

snake Vin.ii.109; DN.i.77; SN.iv.198; AN.iii.306 sq.; AN.iv.320; AN.v.289; Mnd.484; Vism.345 (+ kukkura etc.); Vv-a.100; Pv-a.144.

• -kuṇapa the carcase of a snake Vin.iii.68 …

usually tikicchati to reflect, think over, intend aim at. Pp. cikicchita Kp-a.188 (in explⁿ of vicikicchita q.v.).

Sk. cikitsati, Desid. of cit, cinteti. Cp. vicikicchā

…Ja.iii.275.

• -tikicchā the art of infant-healing DN.i.12 (= komārabhacca-vejjakamma DN-a.i.98).

Sk….

adjective curable; fig. one who can be helped or pardoned. Only in compounds a˚; incurable unpardonable Vv-a.322 (of a sick person); Dhp-a.i.25 (id.); Mil.322; of Devadatta w. ref. to his rebirth …

physician, a doctor AN.v.219; Ja.i.4 (adj. & vejja); Ja.iv.361; Pv-a.233.

fr. tikicchati

…Mil.272, Mil.302. Caus. tikicchāpeti Ja.i.4.

also cikicchati = Sk. cikitsati. Desid. of cit, to aim at, think upon, in pregnant sense of…