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PRONUNCIATION OF PROPRIETARY MEDICINE

proprietary medicine  [prəˈpraɪətərɪ ˈmɛdsən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROPRIETARY MEDICINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proprietary medicine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROPRIETARY MEDICINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of proprietary medicine in the English dictionary

The definition of proprietary medicine in the dictionary is a drug or agent manufactured and distributed under a trade name.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROPRIETARY MEDICINE


aeromedicine
ˈɛərəʊˌmɛdsən
Anderson
ˈændəsən
comparison
kəmˈpærɪsən
Hudson
ˈhʌdsən
Jackson
ˈdʒæksən
Jansen
ˈdʒænsən
Jason
ˈdʒeɪsən
Johnson
ˈdʒɒnsən
lesson
ˈlɛsən
listen
ˈlɪsən
madison
ˈmædɪsən
mason
ˈmeɪsən
nelson
ˈnɛlsən
person
ˈpɜːsən
Richardson
ˈrɪtʃədsən
Robinson
ˈrɒbɪnsən
Rowlandson
ˈrəʊləndsən
Simpson
ˈsɪmpsən
Thompson
ˈtɒmpsən
Wilson
ˈwɪlsən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROPRIETARY MEDICINE

propretor
proprietaries
proprietarily
proprietary
proprietary brand
proprietary colony
proprietary name
proprietary rights
proprieties
proprietor
proprietorial
proprietorially
proprietorship
proprietress
proprietrix
propriety
proprioception
proprioceptive
proprioceptor
proprium

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROPRIETARY MEDICINE

alternative medicine
biomedicine
Chinese medicine
conventional medicine
folk medicine
general medicine
geriatric medicine
herbal medicine
internal medicine
medicine
nuclear medicine
occupational medicine
patent medicine
physical medicine
piscine
preventive medicine
sports medicine
telemedicine
traditional medicine
tropical medicine
veterinary medicine

Synonyms and antonyms of proprietary medicine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «proprietary medicine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROPRIETARY MEDICINE

Find out the translation of proprietary medicine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of proprietary medicine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «proprietary medicine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

成药
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medicina patentada
570 millions of speakers

English

proprietary medicine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मालिकाना दवा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الطب الملكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фирменная медицина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

medicina proprietária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মালিকানাধীন ঔষধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spécialité pharmaceutique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ubat proprietari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

proprietären Medizin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

独自の医学
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독점 의학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Obat terlarang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc độc quyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனியுரிம மருந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मालकीचा औषध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tescilli tıp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

medicina proprietario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

medycyna zastrzeżone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фірмова медицина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

medicină de proprietate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιοσκευάσματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

private medisyne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proprietary medicin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proprietære medisin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proprietary medicine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPRIETARY MEDICINE»

The term «proprietary medicine» is used very little and occupies the 152.113 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPRIETARY MEDICINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «proprietary medicine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «proprietary medicine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about proprietary medicine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROPRIETARY MEDICINE»

Discover the use of proprietary medicine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proprietary medicine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and ...
The terms 'proprietary' medicine and 'patent' medicine were also frequently used. A 'proprietary' medicine was one 'the sale of which is restricted by patent' [1]. However this is not strictly true, as the term was also applied to a medicine for ...
Stuart Anderson, 2005
2
High Performance Liquid Chromatography Fingerprinting ...
Medicinal materials, decoction pieces and proprietary medicine are the three mainstays of the Chinese medicine industry Among them, Chinese proprietary medicine has the highest market share. Seventy percent of the medicinal materials ...
Baochang Cai, Seng Poon Ong, Xunhong Liu, 2012
3
Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health ...
By the second half of the nineteenth century, the proprietary medicine trade had irrevocably transformed the American almanac.24 Those in the proprietary medicine business used newspapers, broadsides, handbills, circulars, pamphlets , and ...
Thomas A. Horrocks, 2008
4
Journal of International Commerce & Economics Volume III
Study of the extended value chain of proprietary medicine and nonproprietary medicine The extended value chains of proprietary medicine and nonproprietary medicine are different. Figure 2 shows the extended value chain of proprietary ...
United States International Trade Commission
5
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry ...
India differentiates between two categories of traditional formulas: the 'classical formulas' and the so-called 'patent and proprietary medicines', marketed as ' Ayurvedic Proprietary Medicine' or 'Unani Proprietary Medicine'. The classical ...
Martin Saxer, 2013
6
Readings in American Health Care: Current Issues in ...
Homemade drugs were prepared by grinding barks, roots, leaves, or berries into a powder and dissolving them in water or beverage alcohol. The mixture was bitter and often nauseating. Proprietary medicine manufacturers added sugar and ...
William G. Rothstein, 1995
7
Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in ...
Proprietary medicine manufacturers often subsequently purchased advertising space not only in the journal but also in the physicians' book of medicines that conformed to the new standard, the AMA's New and Non—Oflicial Remedies.16 ...
Eric W. Boyle, 2013
8
Health Politics and Policy
For example, the suspect wines being studied probably differed little from the infamous proprietary medicine “Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,” a best-selling but useless concoction (consisting of up to 47% alcohol), which was originally marketed to ...
James Morone, Dan Ehlke, 2014
9
Retail Trade Assoctns Ils 163
It should not be overlooked by these critics that in many cases the proprietary medicine may be compared with the sixpenny book. Many proprietary medi— cines of a harmless—and for their restricted purpose perfectly effective— character ...
H LEVY, 2013
10
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and ...
Whatever the disease, and whatever the purported cure, the “layman” should be able to exercise his own scientific judgment in drug purchasing decisions.12 The proprietary medicine industry entered the twentieth century almost completely ...
Daniel Carpenter, 2014

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROPRIETARY MEDICINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proprietary medicine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Industry leaders to meet on May 3 to find solution to crisis in …
Taking advantage of the situation, manufacturers of proprietary medicines are bringing out several varieties of patented drugs and marketed everywhere. «pharmabiz.com, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Proprietary medicine [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/proprietary-medicine>. Apr 2024 ».
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