Crossword-Solution: POLYPHARMACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polypharmacy | n. | The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines. |
| Polypharmacy | n. | A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients. |
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| treatment with many medicines for same disease | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with POLYPHARMACY (5)
Under the same Ptolemies who founded the Alexandrian Library and Museum, and ordered the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures, the infallible Herophilus [“Contradicere Herophilo in anatomicis, est contradicere evangelium,” was a saying of Fallopius.] made those six hundred dissections of which Tertullian accused him, and the sagacious Erasistratus introduced his mild antiphlogistic treatment in opposition to the polypharmacy and antidotal practice of his time.
Under the same Ptolemies who founded the Alexandrian Library and Museum, and ordered the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures, the infallible Herophilus ["Contradicere Herophilo in anatomicis, est contradicere evangelium," was a saying of Fallopius.] made those six hundred dissections of which Tertullian accused him, and the sagacious Erasistratus introduced his mild antiphlogistic treatment in opposition to the polypharmacy and antidotal practice of his time.
With Arabian influence came polypharmacy, distrust of nature, and attempts to cure disease rather than help nature.
The commentary triumphantly made by this lover of polypharmacy in the case in which this medicine was administered, runs thus:--"These things being exactly performed, this noble gentleman was cured." With certain modifications, the general treatment here indicated was that in fashion at the period to which I refer, and was based on a strong conviction of the presence of certain peccant humours in the body, affecting the brain, which required elimination.
They corrected the polypharmacy of the Arabs and restored natural modes of cure to their proper place.