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noun
A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: herbal medicine
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.
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