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phytoequivalence

noun

Etymology

From phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.

  1. derived from aequivalentia
  2. prefixed as phytoequivalence — “phyto + equivalence”

Definitions

  1. A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of…

    A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.

The neighborhood

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