corporal punishment the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
cruel and unusual punishment punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
detention a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"
economic strangulation punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them; "the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party"
imprisonment the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
medicine,
music 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; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
