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• social pathology — noun : a study of social problems (as crime or alcoholism) that views them as diseased conditions of the social organism * * * 1. a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal… …   Useful english dictionary

• occupational disease — noun disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) • Syn: ↑industrial disease • Hypernyms: ↑disease * * * noun 1. : an illness… …   Useful english dictionary

• psychotherapy — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: circa 1890 treatment of mental or emotional disorder or of related bodily ills by psychological means • psychotherapist noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• mind-healer — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : one who endeavors to cure physical ills by exclusively mental processes * * * mindˈ curer or mindˈ healer noun • • • Main Entry: ↑mind …   Useful english dictionary

• cure-all — noun Date: 1801 a remedy for all ills ; panacea …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• nostrum — noun Etymology: Latin, neuter of noster our, ours, from nos we more at us Date: 1602 1. a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness 2. a usually questionable remedy or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• panacea — noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek panakeia, from panakēs all healing, from pan + akos remedy Date: 1548 a remedy for all ills or difficulties ; cure all • panacean adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• pathology — noun (plural gies) Etymology: New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the emotions, from path + logia logy Date: 1611 1. the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• elixir — noun /ɪˈlɪksə/ a) A liquid which converts lead to gold. For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosophers Stone. b) A liquid which is believed to cure all ills and gives eternal life …   Wiktionary

• potable gold — noun a) A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life to the drinker. This tradition found its way to the West in the notion of ‘potable gold’ (aurum potabile), a medicine that, if drunk, would cure all manner of ills. b) A preparation… …   Wiktionary

• folk devil — noun A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic. It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil. Syn:… …   Wiktionary