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antimedicine

antimedicine adjective: opposing medicine.

Adjective

antimedicine (comparative more antimedicine, superlative most antimedicine)

  1. Opposing medicine.
    • Despite this strong antimedicine bias, she did agree to AZT therapy for herself and baby in the face of compelling scientific evidence that rates of maternal-child transmission could be significantly reduced.1997, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Social work in health settings: practice in context, page 79
    • “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN

Forms of antimedicine

comparativemore antimedicine
superlativemost antimedicine

Origin of antimedicine

From anti- + medicine.

Questions about antimedicine

What does antimedicine mean?
Antimedicine means opposing medicine.
What part of speech is antimedicine?
Antimedicine is an adjective.

Words near antimedicine in the dictionary

  1. antimedial
  2. antimedian
  3. antimedians
  4. antimedical
  5. antimedicalization
  6. antimedicine
  7. antimedieval
  8. antimelancholic
  9. antimelancholics
  10. antimelanization
  11. antimelanogenesis

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