patent_medicine has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

The medical device pirate of today , of_course , is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear - the gallus snapping hawker of snake_oil and other patent_medicines .

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