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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Materia medica

Ma·te′ri·a med′i·ca (mȧ·tē′rĭ·ȧ mĕd′ĭ·kȧ). [L. See Matter, and Medical.] 1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; — a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.

2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.