Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

The term mycology and the complementary mycologist were first used in 1836 by M. J. Berkeley.

The complementary term, single-user, is most commonly used when talking about an operating system being usable only by one person at a time, or in reference to a single-user software license agreement.

The cosine of the hour angle ( cos ( h )) becomes an easy computation tool in determining the cosine term for the computation of the angle of the sun's altitude ( or the complementary zenith angle ) at any time during the day.

* Alternative currency is often used, but in essence this term is deceitful in many cases, as many currencies are designed to be complementary, and not to concur with-or to substitute conventional currencies.

" His term the " new man " applied to men and women equally, whose roles he saw as complementary ; indeed, most of his movement's leadership positions were held by women.

When the Financial Times ran a lighthearted article on famous feuds in September 2008, featuring this, the local Whitehaven News published its own complementary feature, reporting that: " The common view is that the term is insulting because it implies people could not afford to buy meat for their sandwiches, so they had to eat jam instead.

Accordingly, the term " universal dialectic " can be seen as part of an attempt to Westernize and / or modernize the concept of taiji in regard to the fundamental role and nature of complementary opposites in the ongoing self-organizing process of creation.

Wherever a gene exists on a DNA molecule, one strand is the coding strand ( or sense strand or non-template strand ), and the other is the noncoding strand ( also called the antisense strand is a general term for a sequence of DNA or RNA that is complementary to mRNA

However it can be rewritten as a standard form AAA-1 syllogism by first substituting the synonymous term " humans " for " people " and then by reducing the complementary term " immortal " in the first premise using the immediate inference known as obversion ( that is, " No humans are immortal.

* Alternative currency is often used, but in essence this term is deceitful in many cases, as many currencies are designed to be complementary, and not to concur with-or to substitute conventional currencies.

Despite this distinction, the term LMS is often used to refer to both an LMS and an LCMS, although the LCMS is actually a complementary solution to an LMS.

* Alternative currency is often used, but in essence this term is deceitful in many cases, as many currencies are designed to be complementary, and not to concur with-or to substitute conventional currencies.

The term local currency, describing a complementary currency which is limited to a single locality, is sometimes used interchangeably with complementary currency.

Other experimental complementary currencies use high interest fees to promote heavy competition between participants, and the removal of wealth from long term wealth holding structures ( natural / material wealth, property, etc.

This is why certain leaders of this movement were careful to use the term ' complementary '.

According to Salmon, the English verb " exist " is ( along with its literal tranlsations into other languages ), among other things, a term for this alleged property, and a sentence of the form " a exists " is true if and only if the subject term designates something with the property, and is false ( and " a does not exist " is true ) if and only if the subject term designates something with the complementary property of nonexistence.

Current practitioners with this orientation do not use the term " Clinical Ecologist ," although those opposed to this complementary medicine approach to illness often still do.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

The term ' alternative medicine ' is generally used to describe practices used independently or in place of conventional medicine.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

However, the term disorder is also used in many other areas of medicine, primarily to identify physical disorders that are not caused by infectious organisms, such as metabolic disorders.

The term empirical was originally used to refer to certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine who rejected adherence to the dogmatic doctrines of the day, preferring instead to rely on the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience.

The term " evidence-based medicine " first appeared in the medical literature in 1992 in a paper by Guyatt et al.

This colloquial usage of the term is also common in medicine and in nutrition (" take plenty of fluids ").

The term Galenism has subsequently taken on both a positive and pejorative meaning as one that transformed medicine in late antiquity yet so dominated subsequent thinking as to stifle further progress.

Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.

So the term " medicine man / woman " is not entirely inappropriate, but it greatly oversimplifies and also skews the depiction of the people whose role in society complements that of the chief.

The term " medicine people " is commonly used in Native American communities, for example, when Arwen Nuttall ( Cherokee ) of the National Museum of the American Indian writes, " The knowledge possessed by medicine people is privileged, and it often remains in particular families.

The term " medicine man / woman ," like the term " shaman ", has been criticized by Native Americans, as well as other specialists in the fields of religion and anthropology.

The term " medicine man / woman " was also frequently used by Europeans to refer to African traditional healers, also known as " witch doctors " or " fetish men / women ".

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.

Around the world the term physician refers to a specialist in internal medicine or one of its many sub-specialties ( especially as opposed to a specialist in surgery ).

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.