patent+medicine
31Medicine show — A reenactment of a medicine show in Ringwood, Illinois Medicine shows were traveling horse and wagon teams which peddled miracle cure medications and other products between various entertainment acts. Their precise origins unknown, medicine shows …
32patent — n., adj., & v. n. 1 a government authority to an individual or organization conferring a right or title, esp. the sole right to make or use or sell some invention. 2 a document granting this authority. 3 an invention or process protected by it.… …
33medicine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. medicament, medication, remedy; therapy, physic; medical profession. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The healing profession] Syn. medical men, healers, practitioners, doctors, physicians, surgeons, osteopaths …
34medicine man — 1. (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a person believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; shaman. 2. a seller of patent medicine, esp. before 1900, presenting a medicine show to attract customers. [1795… …
35medicine — Synonyms and related words: anatomy, anesthesiology, audiology, bacteriology, balm, balsam, cardiology, chiropody, corpse reviver, cure, cure all, dental surgery, dentistry, dermatology, diagnostics, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, embryology,… …
36medicine — Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy. State v Stoddard, 215 Iowa 534, 245 NW 273, 86 ALR 616; Kelly v Carroll, 36 Wash 2d 482, 219 P2d 79, 19 ALR2d 1174; Waldo v Poe (DC Wash) 14 F2d 749. Anything,… …
37Patent ductus arteriosus — Classification and external resources Heart cross section with PDA ICD 10 Q …
38Patent Blue V — Patent Blue V, also called Food Blue 5 or Sulphan Blue, is a dark bluish synthetic dye used as a food coloring. As a food additive, it has E number E131. It is a sodium or calcium salt of [4 (α (4 diethylaminophenyl) 5 hydroxy 2,4 disulfophenyl… …
39patent ductus arteriosus — pa·tent ductus arteriosus pāt ənt n an abnormal condition in which the ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth * * * (PDA) abnormal persistence of an open lumen in the ductus arteriosus after birth, the direction of flow being from the aorta …
40patent period — pa·tent period pāt ənt n the period of time in the course of a parasitic disease (as malaria) during which the parasitic organisms can be demonstrated in the body …
