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traditional medicine

noun

Definitions

  1. A system of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, especially one that is…

    A system of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, especially one that is associated with a single culture.

    • Holonyms: complementary medicine, integrative medicine, alternative medicine
    • Near-synonyms: folk medicine (often synonymous, sometimes specific to laypersons), indigenous medicine (almost synonymous but is not applied to the folk medicine of non-Indigenous groups)

  2. A specific medicine or remedy in this system.

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No curated loop yet for traditional medicine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA