i|at´ro|chem´ist

i|at´ro|chem´ist: i|at|ro|chem|is|try «y _AT roh KEHM uh stree», noun.

1. the application of chemistry to medicine and therapeutics.

2. a school of medicine in the 1500's and the first half of the 1600's that substituted remedies prepared by artificial chemical processes for the roots and herbs of earlier medicine and believed that diseases could be explained entily in terms of chemistry.

╂[< Greek iātrós physician + English chemistry]

–i|at´ro|chem´ist, noun.

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chem|ist — «KEHM ihst», noun. 1. a person whose occupation is chemistry or who knows a great deal about it. Chemists investigate chemical compositions, properties, and phenomena, or apply them to uses in industry, medicine, agriculture, or other fields. 2.… … Useful english dictionary
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