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Holistic Medicine
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Definition: A healing approach that considers a person's body, mind, and spirit and their interactions in the process of promoting health and well-being and treating disease.  Holistic medicine also considers interactions between different body systems.

Pronunciation: [ho'lis'tic] • (noun) 

Alternate Spellings: wholistic medicine


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