Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to integration.
- adjective Tending or serving to integrate.
- adjective Relating to a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to medicine that combines conventional treatments with alternative therapies such as homeopathy or naturopathy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to integrate or complete; conducive to integration or the formation of a whole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.
- adjective centralizing(prenominal). Opposite of
decentralizing .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective sciences Tending toward or promoting
integration
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- adjective combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
- adjective tending to consolidate
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term integrative medicine describes a combination of conventional and CAM therapies.
The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack Ph.D. Dede Bonner 2009
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I have received communications from individuals worried that the IOM is opening itself up to certifying medical quackery just by using the term integrative medicine.
Dr. Dean Ornish: Transforming Medicine: An Historic Event 2009
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The new wave of so-called integrative physicians have co-opted the term integrative, but is unclear to me what they are integrating.
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As the term integrative medicine comes into wider use, its advocates, as at Duke University, consider it the very best of conventional medicine and cutting-edge diagnosis and treatment, with appropriate complementary therapies.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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As the term integrative medicine comes into wider use, its advocates, as at Duke University, consider it the very best of conventional medicine and cutting-edge diagnosis and treatment, with appropriate complementary therapies.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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I am a proponent of what I call integrative medicine, which is ...
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You know, all of this is within this wide scope of what I call integrative medicine.
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Mr. ERIC HORVITZ: One whole direction we're going in is to bring together machine vision, machine learning, conversational abilities to explore what we call integrative A.I.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Berwick's list is enshrined in the definition of integrative medicine endorsed by the 51 medical schools in the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
John Weeks: Berwick's Exit from Medicare a Loss of a Brother-in-the-Trenches for Integrative Medicine John Weeks 2011
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Berwick's list is enshrined in the definition of integrative medicine endorsed by the 51 medical schools in the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
John Weeks: Berwick's Exit from Medicare a Loss of a Brother-in-the-Trenches for Integrative Medicine John Weeks 2011
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