drugless
6.0
A treatment that does not use medicine
- adjective
- /ˈdrʌɡləs/
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sin medicamentos
- After her experience with side effects, she decided to try a drugless approach to wellness.
Examples
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Of course we should promote drugless medicine and public health initiatives, but only when they convincingly work in a cost-effective manner.
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Many patients are seeking drugless therapies for managing chronic pain.
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The clinic offers a range of drugless treatments to help patients improve their health naturally.
Synonyms
unmedicated
vsdrugless
2
4.6
It has no medicine added or given
refers to treatments that avoid medicines rather than a patient's state
3.5
A method that does not use medicine, for example exercise or counseling
is specific to treatments and therapies rather than any context
6.5
Not involving drugs used to treat or prevent health problems
focuses on treatment use rather than legal or product classification
How Drugless
Surface Forms
drugless positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word drugless is made of drug and the ending -less, which means 'without'. You can remember -less from words like careless ('without care'). So a drugless treatment is one done 'without' drugs.