Materia Medica Definition

mə-tîrē-ə mĕdĭ-kə
noun
The scientific study of medicinal drugs and their sources, preparation, and use.
American Heritage Medicine
The drugs and other remedial substances used in medicine.
Webster's New World
The branch of medical science that deals with such substances, their uses, etc.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Materia Medica

  • New Latin māteria medica (translation of Greek hulē iātrikē) Latin māteria material Latin medica feminine of medicus medical

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin materia (“material") + medica, from medicus (“medical")

    From Wiktionary

Materia Medica Sentence Examples

  • In their hall in Queen Street are a valuable library and a museum of materia medica.

  • Besides the subjects of theory and practice of medicine, he lectured systematically on botany, materia medica and chemistry.

  • Dioscorides, a Greek writer, who appears to have flourished about the time of Nero, issued a work on Materia Medica.

  • As a medicinal agent the bamboo is entirely inert, and it has never been received into the European materia medica.

  • He studied anatomy and medicine at the university of Pisa, where he took his doctor's degree in 1551, and in 1555 became professor of materia medica and director of the botanical garden.

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