Patent Medicine

Definition: Patent Medicine

1. Medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription.

Specialty Definitions: Patent Medicine

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune, but you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious. To see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity to positions above your highest imaginings. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Modern Usage: Patent Medicine

Photo Album: Patent Medicine

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	[Front of shack with patent medicine advertisements] / [P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Marion Post Walcott]..		Townsley & Reynolds, Perfumers,...and Patent Medicine Dealers.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Patent medicine labels for Perry Davis & Son, showing view of Providence, R.I., and four patent medicine bottles] / Kilburn & Mallory sc., Boston.Credit: Library of Congress.		Salesman displaying patent medicine to farmers who have brought tobacco to warehouse and are waiting outside for the sales to begin. Mebane, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Patent medicine shop. Hagerstown, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Modern Translations: Patent Medicine

Language		Translations for "patent medicine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		patenttilääke. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		売薬 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばいやく (sales contract). (various references)

Pig Latin		atentpay edicinemay

Romanian		medicament miraculos, medicament autorizat. (various references)

Russian		патентованное лекарство. (various references)

Spanish		específico (concrete, specific). (various references)

Swedish		patentmedicin (nostrum). (various references)

Turkish		hazır ilaç (officinal). (various references)

Vietnamese		biệt dược. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Patent Medicine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-p-t-t"
	-3 letters: impenitence, pentamidine.
	-4 letters: antecedent, antiemetic, detainment, enticement, impatience, impenitent, incitement, indictment, nematicide, tiemannite.
	-5 letters: cementite, centipede, emittance, enactment, impainted, impatient, impedance, impendent, inpatient, intimated, mendicant, peacetime, pectinate, penitence, timepiece.
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