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.
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A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
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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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A remedy for all diseases.
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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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In Greek mythology, Panacea (Greek Πανάκεια, Panakeia) was the goddess of healing. She was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
Panacea and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Panacea was the goddess of cures, Iaso was the goddess of recuperation, Hygieia was the goddess of disease prevention, Aceso was the goddess of recovery, and Aglaea was the goddess of natural beauty.
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 river in Thrace/Moesia was named after the goddess, and is still known as the river Panega (from Greek panakeia).
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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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