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functional medicine

functional medicine noun: a form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.

Noun

functional medicine (uncountable)

  1. A form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.

Origin of functional medicine

Created by charismatic leaders in the 1990s; more in Wikipedia at functional medicine.

Questions about functional medicine

What does functional medicine mean?
Functional medicine means a form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.
What part of speech is functional medicine?
Functional medicine is a noun.

Words near functional medicine in the dictionary

  1. functional linguistics
  2. functional load
  3. functional loads
  4. functional magnetic resonance imaging
  5. functional magnetic-resonance imaging
  6. functional medicine
  7. functional MR imaging
  8. functional music
  9. functional necrophilia
  10. functional neurological disorder
  11. functional neurological symptom disorder

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