patent medicines

plural of patent medicine

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Noun
  • However, prison staff failed to fill any of his prescriptions as written.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The state’s opioid settlement and litigation page states that at the height of the opioid crisis in 2012, 112 opioid prescriptions were being written for every 100 Hoosiers.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Patent medicines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patent%20medicines. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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