complementary medicine

Definitions of complementary medicine
  1. noun
    the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine
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    type of:
    medicine, practice of medicine
    the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
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