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folk medicine

health and healing strategies based on cultural tradition, usually practiced by people within the culture who have experience in applying these remedies but no formal training. Folk medicine is most strongly associated with herbal remedies, but animal, mineral, and spiritual remedies also fall into this category. When folk medicine is used outside of its originating culture, it is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine. Also called traditional medicine.

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complementary classification

complementary classification

in classification tasks, the grouping of items from conceptually different categories into a superordinate class based on an individual’s mental associations from past experience. For example, cow, tractor, and farmer may be grouped because they are all found on a farm. Also called functional classification; schematic classification; thematic classification. Compare conceptual classification; idiosyncratic classification; perceptual classification.