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pat'ent med'icine




1. a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
2. a medicine distributed by a company having a patent on its manufacture.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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