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PATENT MEDICINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("patent medicine" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patent medicine"):
nostrum (patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable)
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