Quack+medicine
31Quackery — Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of disease. We may think that the day of patent medicines is gone but look around you and you will see them still. They appeal to our desire to… …
32psychoquack — psy·cho·quack sī kō .kwak n a quack psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychotherapist psy·cho·quack·ery .sī kō kwak ə rē n, pl eries …
33charlatan — A medical fraud claiming to cure disease by useless procedures, secret remedies, and worthless diagnostic and therapeutic machines. SYN: quack. [Fr., fr. It. ciarlare, to prattle] * * * char·la·tan shär lət ən n QUACK …
34Empirical — Based on experience and observation, rather than systematic logic. Experienced physicians often use empirical reasoning to make diagnoses, based on having seen many cases over the years. Less experienced physicians are more likely to use… …
35empiric — 1. SYN: empirical. 2. A member of a school of Graeco Roman physicians, late BC to early AD, who placed their confidence in and based their practice purely on experience, avoiding all speculation, theory, or abstract reasoning; they were little… …
36twitch — 1. To jerk spasmodically. 2. A momentary spasmodic contraction of a muscle fiber. [A.S. twiccian] * * * twitch twich vi to undergo a brief spasmodic muscular contraction <the muscle twitched> twitch n a brief spasmodic contraction of muscle …
37Agropyron — Ag·ro·py·ron .ag rō pī .rän n a widely distributed genus of chiefly perennial grasses that includes quack grass …
38couch grass — n QUACK GRASS * * * the perennial grass Agropyrum repens; its long roots are diuretic, demulcent, and antitussive and have been used to treat cystitis …
39medicaster — med·i·cas·ter med i .kas tər n a medical charlatan: QUACK …
40mountebank — moun·te·bank mau̇nt i .baŋk n an itinerant hawker of pills and patent medicines esp. from a platform: QUACK <bought an unction of a mountebank (Shak.)> …
