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patent medicine collapse: medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription

corrective collapse: a device for treating injury or disease; tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"; designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

specific collapse: a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria"; stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount"; (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"; being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements"; relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; "specific characters"

cackle collapse: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle; the sound made by a hen after laying an egg; emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing; squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens; talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

balsam collapse: an ointment containing a fragrant resin; any seed plant yielding balsam; any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes

counterirritant collapse: a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation

receipt collapse: an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made; mark or stamp as paid

cluck collapse: the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks); make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

tweet collapse: a week chirping sound as of a small bird; make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree"

pretender collapse: a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)

malingerer collapse: someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

gaggle collapse: a flock of geese; make a noise characteristic of a goose; "Cackling geese"

irreparable collapse: impossible to repair, rectify, or amend; "irreparable harm"; "an irreparable mistake"; "irreparable damages"

operate on collapse: perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"

elixir collapse: a substance believed to cure all ills; a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste

irreclaimable collapse: insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"

irredeemable collapse: (of paper money) not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder

diagnose collapse: determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis; subject to a medical analysis

caw collapse: the sound made by corvine birds; utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

rectification collapse: determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve; the conversion of alternating current to direct current; (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation

balm collapse: any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing

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