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Materia medica
“Medical material.”
Medical term; Dioscorides, De materia medica
Translation
What does “Materia medica” mean?
Materia medica translates as “Medical material.”
The body of knowledge about substances used as medicines, and those substances themselves.
Origin
The story behind it
The term comes from the Latin title of Dioscorides’ 1st-century Greek handbook of medicinal plants, the standard pharmacology text for over a thousand years.
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