Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SPE-CIF'IC
SPE-CIF'IC, or SPE-CIF'IC-ALSPE-CIF'IC-AL-LY
SPE-CIF'IC, n.
- In medicine, a remedy that cures diseases upon some principle peculiar to itself, and not common to any two or more remedies.
- A remedy which infallibly cures all cases of certain diseases, to which it is deemed appropriate. No such thing as a specific, in either of these senses, exists.
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