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functional medicine

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables
func-tion-al medicine
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.

Uncountable

Etymology

Created by charismatic leaders in the 1990s; more in Wikipedia at functional medicine.

Usage

Questions

What does functional medicine mean?
A form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.
Where does functional medicine come from?
Created by charismatic leaders in the 1990s; more in Wikipedia at functional medicine.

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