Usually means: Antidote for poison, ancient remedy.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. theriaca: Merriam-Webster
  2. theriaca: Wordnik
  3. theriaca: Wiktionary
  4. theriaca: Dictionary.com
  5. Theriaca (poem), Theriaca: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Theriaca: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Theriaca: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. theriaca: FreeDictionary.org
  9. theriaca: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. theriaca: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)

(Note: See theriacal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Theriaca)

noun:  Alternative spelling of theriac. [(pharmacology, historical) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.]

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