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発音

• enPR: kŏm′plə-mĕn′t(ə)rē mĕd′ĭ-sĭn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: (contemporary) /ˌkɒm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/, /ˌkɒm.pləˌmen.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmed.ɪ.sɪn/; (conservative) /ˌkɔːm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/, /ˌkɔːm.pləˌmen.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmed.ɪ.sɪn/
• (General American) IPA: (without the cot–caught merger) /ˌkɔm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌkɑm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/
• (Canada) IPA: (standard) /ˌkɒm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/, (dialectal) /ˌkɑm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌkɔm.pləˌmen.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmed.ɪ.sɪn/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌkɒm.pləˌmen.t(ə)ɹiː ˈmed.ə.sən/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˌkɔm.pləˌmɛn.t(ə)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/, /ˌkɔm.plʌˌmɛn.t(ʌ)ɹi ˈmɛd.ɪ.sɪn/
• (India) IPA: /ˌkɔm.pleˌmɛ(ː)n.ʈ(a)ɾiː ˈmɛ(ː)ɖ.ɪ.sɪn/
• ハイフネーション: com‧ple‧men‧ta‧ry med‧i‧cine

名詞

complementary medicine (countable and uncountable, plural complementary medicines)

1. Any of several therapies that complement (augment) scientific medical practices with those of alternative medicine such as acupuncture or homeopathy.

   Synonyms: integrative medicine (denotatively not different), alternative medicine (often denotatively not different)

   Meronyms: (it contains these as parts) alternative medicine, functional medicine, folk medicine, traditional medicine, indigenous medicine, herbal medicine

   Coordinate term: quackery (knowingly fake: fraudulent)

Further reading

• “complementary medicine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.