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(medicine) Any natural herbal substance (such as ginseng) that is supposed to help the body adapt to stress, and to exert a normalizing effect upon body functions.
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(biochemistry, dated) A protective substance that exists in the serum or other bodily fluid and is capable of killing microorganisms; complement.
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(pharmacology, chiefly archaic or historical) A medical remedy for protecting the body, or an antidote, against a harmful substance, especially a poison or venom (specifically, that of a snake); an alexipharmic, an antidote.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of alexipharmic [(pharmacology, chiefly archaic or historical) Synonym of alexipharmac (“of or pertaining to an alexipharmac; also, acting as an alexipharmac by protecting against or warding off the ill effects of a harmful substance, especially a poison or venom”)]
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An antidote to a poison.
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(obsolete) Something which protects against, or cures, a poison; an antidote.
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Alternative form of alexipharmacon [An antidote to a poison.]
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(pharmacology, chiefly archaic or historical, also figuratively) Synonym of alexipharmac (“a medical remedy for protecting the body, or an antidote, against harmful substances, especially a poison or venom (specifically, that of a snake)”); an antidote.
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Alternative form of alexipharmic [(pharmacology, chiefly archaic or historical) Synonym of alexipharmac (“of or pertaining to an alexipharmac; also, acting as an alexipharmac by protecting against or warding off the ill effects of a harmful substance, especially a poison or venom”)]
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A preservative against the effects of poison.
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(biology) A laboratory procedure in which samples of a bacterium are treated with a variety of antibiotics.
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Synonym of contraceptive
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Of, or relating to antisepsis, or the use of antiseptics.
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Self-destruction of a species through the production of chemicals that escape into the environment and directly inhibit the growth of that species.
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Having or relating to avitaminosis.
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Involving megadoses of vitamins.
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An intravenous mixture of vitamins and minerals used in naturopathic treatments.
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(pharmacology, also attributive) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to a previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
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Alternative form of nutraceutical
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(medicine, pharmacology) Exhibiting pharmacovigilance.
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(medicine) any of several classes of antibiotics produced by plants in response to microorganisms
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(South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
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Alternative form of stoss therapy [(medicine) The administration of a single very large dose of vitamin D to treat rickets.]
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Relating to supernutrition
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(medicine, obsolete) Preserving health; prophylactic.
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(sports pharmacology) an exemption to allow use of a banned substance for therapeutic purposes so that a ban from competition will not result when testing returns positive results
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(rare) Resembling or characteristic of a vaccination.
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