patent medicine

中成药,成药,专利药,专利药品

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
- : a medicine distributed by a company having a patent on its manufacture.

nounproprietary medicine

Synonyms

The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.
Certain trades, such as medicine or law, are eternally well-respected.
In this understanding, art is like a medicine or a toxin, transforming its audience for good or ill.
Robert Fitzgerald received a patent in England for making salt water fresh.
I only draw your attention to the facts; which have been sufficiently patent to the world, whatever Lord Hartledon may think.
Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
Barclay, in his tract on "The Vertues of Tobacco," recommends its use as a medicine.
Papier maché buttons came in with Henry Clay's patent in 1778.