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galenical definition

ga·leni·cal (gə len′i kəl)

noun

a medicine prepared from plants, according to a fixed recipe, as opposed to drugs of known chemical composition

Etymology: after Galen

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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