complementary medicine

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   the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine

   Broadermedicine

Questions about complementary medicine

What does complementary medicine mean?

complementary medicine means "the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine".

Is complementary medicine a common word?

complementary medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.