Materia medica (medical material/substance) is a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing (i.e., medicines). The term derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, `On Medical Material`.....
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• That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases. • Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
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(from the article `Spain`) ...Goals of the Scholar`; also known as Picatrix) and Rutbat al-akm (`The Step of the Scholar`). Greater interest is merited by the Materia medica, a ...
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(mah-tēr´e-ah med´ĭ-kah) pharmacology.
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Ma·te'ri·a med'i·ca [ Latin See
Matter , and
Medical .]
1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substance...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. that aspect of medical science concerned with the origin and preparation of drugs, their doses, and their mode of administration; 2. any agent used therapeutically.
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Materia medica: 1. The ingredients used to make medications, whether those be for medicine, homeopathy, herbal medicine, or whatever. 2. The branch of medical science concerned with the study of drugs and their properties, preparation, administration, and such. A synonym for pharmacology. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the renowned Dean of Harvard...
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Materia medica is Latin for Materials used for medicine
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Materia Medica was an collective name given to the materials with which physicians attempt to cure or alleviate the numerous diseases of the human body. A 19th century description of materia medica describes it as 'comprehend a great variety of substances taken from the mineral, animal, and vegetable kingdoms - such as mercury, antimony, arsenic, a...
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materia medica (medical matter) 1. Substances used in medicine. 2. That branch of medicine which deals with the properties of drugs and with their application in the cure of diseases.
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