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phytoequivalence

phytoequivalence noun: a physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.

Noun

phytoequivalence (uncountable)

  1. (herbal medicine) A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.

Origin of phytoequivalence

From phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.

Words formed from phytoequivalence

  • phytoequivalent

Questions about phytoequivalence

What does phytoequivalence mean?
Phytoequivalence means a physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.
What part of speech is phytoequivalence?
Phytoequivalence is a noun.

Words near phytoequivalence in the dictionary

  1. phytoecological
  2. phytoecologist
  3. phytoecologists
  4. phytoecology
  5. phytoene
  6. phytoequivalence
  7. phytoerythrin
  8. phytoerythrins
  9. phytoestrogen
  10. phytoestrogenic
  11. phytoestrogens

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