panacea
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pan·a·ce·a
(păn'ə-sē'ə) 
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A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
n.
A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
[Latin panacēa, from Greek panakeia, from panakēs, all-healing : pan-, pan- + akos, cure.]
panacean pan'a·ce'an adj.Fowler's Modern English Usage:
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panacea
from Greek words meaning 'all-healing', denotes not just a remedy but a universal remedy and is therefore not appropriate in the context of particular illnesses, e.g. a panacea for measles. It is most commonly used in negative or ironic ways and in social rather than medical contexts:
Many in the academic sector remain sceptical about whether employer-led higher education is the panacea some believe it to be—Times Higher Education Supplement, 2006.
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| panel, panic, pants |
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panacea
Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. In addition, nothing solves a problem without introducing its own new set of problems. See Systemantics.
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IN BRIEF: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
— Elizabeth C. Dunn.
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categories related to 'panacea'
- PHARMACOLOGY - panacea: cure-all believed to remedy all ailments
- Practice, Discipline, and Belief - panacea: universal remedy for all ills
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This article is about the Greek goddess. For other uses, see Panacea (disambiguation).
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In Greek mythology, Panacea (Greek Πανάκεια, Panakeia) was a goddess of Universal remedy. She was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Panacea and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Panacea (the goddess of Universal remedy), Hygieia ("Hygiene" the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation ), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), and Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment).
Panacea also had four brothers – Podaleirus, one of the two kings of Tricca, who had a flair for diagnostics, and Machaon, the other king of Tricca, who was a master surgeon (these two took part in the Trojan War until Machaon was killed by Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons); Telesphoros, who devoted his life to serving Asclepius; and Aratus, her stepbrother, who was a Greek hero and the patron/liberator of Sicyon.
Panacea was said to have a poultice or potion with which she healed the sick. This brought about the concept of the panacea in medicine, a substance meant to cure all diseases. The term is also used figuratively as something intended to completely solve a large, multi-faceted problem.
A river in Thrace/Moesia was named after the goddess, and is still known as the river Panega (from Greek panakeia).
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Panacea
Dansk (Danish)
n. - universalmiddel, patentmiddel
Français (French)
n. - panacée
Deutsch (German)
n. - Allheilmittel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πανάκεια, γιατρικό για όλες τις αρρώστιες
Português (Portuguese)
n. - panacéia (f)
Español (Spanish)
n. - panacea
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - universalmedel, patentlösning
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
万能药
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 萬靈藥
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الدواء العام
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תרופת מרפאת-כל
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