Definition of panacea in English:
panacea
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noun
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
‘the panacea for all corporate ills’- ‘the time-honored panacea, cod liver oil’
- ‘Many people in the United States think that screening is a panacea, a way of warding off disease and staying healthy perhaps forever.’
- ‘Furthermore, he said, it was not reasonable to expect the sauna to be a panacea for so many diseases.’
- ‘If those consumers think the drug industrial monopolists already charge too much for pills and panaceas, just wait until the privately patented and monopolized ‘stem cell cures’ hit the market…’
- ‘Thus schools have become the all-purpose panacea, the one-stop solution to any government headache.’
- ‘But, like any tool, it is not a panacea for the difficulties of modern civilization.’
- ‘She is aware that this has not been a panacea or overnight solution in Sweden, but regards it as by far the best of a dubious set of alternatives.’
- ‘Care paths are not panaceas and their worth depends on the integrity of the logic and the appropriateness of the options offered.’
- ‘Some researchers contend that sympathetic nerve blocks are not the panacea they are made out to be.’
- ‘Gene therapy will never be a panacea, but ultimately it will be one method among many for helping patients with severe genetic disease.’
- ‘Weight loss in and of itself is probably not the panacea you are looking for.’
- ‘And so I don't think anyone looks at screening as a magic panacea to save the health budget.’
- ‘It may not be a panacea, but we're going to need every weapon we can find against bacterial infection.’
- ‘Not even my usual panacea for brainache - a glass of red wine - seems to do the trick.’
- ‘Mental health care may function as a panacea for many different personal and social problems.’
- ‘Meanwhile, women need to be advised that a caesarean section is not a panacea.’
- ‘We believe that neither is a panacea and that holistic provision should include both methods.’
- ‘Admittedly, the life course approach may not be the panacea for all our ills but it may well be.’
- ‘Stopping smoking is hard, but a variety of methods can help even though none is a panacea.’
- ‘Their successors, the pharmaceutical industry, have much the same motive, although the modern method is to turn the full spectrum of panaceas and pills into profit.’
- ‘The drugs are not a panacea but they do improve quality of life and boost life expectancy.’
universal cure, cure-all, cure for all ills, universal remedy, sovereign remedy, heal-all, nostrum, elixir, wonder drug, perfect solution, magic formula, magic bulletView synonyms
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Origin
Mid 16th century via Latin from Greek panakeia, from panakēs ‘all-healing’, from pan ‘all’ + akos ‘remedy’.
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