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antimedicine

adjective

Opposing medicine.

Scrabble 17

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Meanings

adjectiveantimedicine (comparative more antimedicine, superlative most antimedicine)

comparative more antimedicine · superlative most antimedicine

Opposing medicine.
“The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.
2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN
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Despite this strong antimedicine bias, she did agree to AZT therapy for herself and baby in the face of compelling scientific evidence that rates of maternal-child transmission could be significantly reduced.
1997, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Social work in health settings: practice in context, page 79

Origin

From anti- + medicine.

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APA

antimedicine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimedicine

MLA

“antimedicine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimedicine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antimedicine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimedicine.

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