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- noun pharmacology, herbal medicine A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.
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phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.
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