Usually means: Medications sold without prescription historically.
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  1. patent medicine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. patent medicine: Merriam-Webster
  3. patent medicine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. patent medicine: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. patent-medicine: Wordnik
  7. patent medicine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. patent medicine: Wiktionary
  9. patent medicine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. patent medicine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. patent medicine: Dictionary.com
  12. Patent Medicine, Patent medicine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. patent medicine: Rhymezone
  14. patent medicine: FreeDictionary.org
  15. patent medicine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. patent medicine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. patent medicine: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. patent medicine: Legal dictionary
  4. patent medicine: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patent medicine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. patent medicine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. patent medicine: Medical dictionary

(Note: See patent_medicines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (patent medicine)

noun:  (British) A medicine that is protected by a patent.
noun:  (US) Any medicine with a proprietary formula which can be bought without a prescription, irrespective of whether it is protected by a patent.

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