nostrum 的定义
- a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- a pet scheme or remedy, especially for social or political ills; panacea: The party was pushing the nostrum of corporate tax reduction, as if that would undo decades of industrial job loss.
- a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
- a patent medicine.
nostrum 近义词
cure-all, often ineffective
nostrum 的近义词 15 个
- catholicon
- cure
- drug
- elixir
- fix
- formula
- medicine
- panacea
- potion
- remedy
- treatment
- home remedy
- patent medicine
- quack medicine
- quick fix
nostrum 的反义词 2 个
更多nostrum例句
- Captain Giuseppe Maggio described the nightmare situations the Mare Nostrum ships encounter.
- Since Mare Nostrum, more than 60 traffickers have been arrested when their boats were intercepted or rescued at sea.
- But if Mare Nostrum ends, it could be a tragic day for migrants making the perilous crossing.
- Instead, it would like to see additional, strengthened search and rescue missions like Mare Nostrum put in place.
- Arma igitur expediunt, passis velis, instructa acie, directo cursu in nostrum portum inuehuntur.
- And now we find another example in that much advertised nostrum, Uriseptin.
- So that, like acetanilid, the old argument of the nostrum men that the preparation needs skill in compounding will not hold.
- In fact, to be consistent with the ethics of the nostrum business he need have none.
- Among other things, it has furnished a demonstration of the value of the honorable assurances of nostrum venders.