Specific

Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.

Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.

Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.

A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.

Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.

a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria"

a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general"