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Панацея — meaning in English

Panatseya

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English meaning

  • panacea noun A single remedy or solution supposed to fix every problem — usually said sceptically, of something that cannot really do so.

Senses

Панацея is used for these senses in English:

  • Panacea (Greek god) The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
  • panacea A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  • theriac (pharmacology, historical) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.
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