"functional medicine" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Created by charismatic leaders in the 1990s; more in Wikipedia at functional medicine. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} functional medicine (uncountable)
  1. 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. Wikidata QID: Q4357900 Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-functional_medicine-en-noun-en:Q4357900 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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