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n. - (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another).

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  • Ikram, the modern succedaneum for an extensive and regularly paid revenue.
  • “Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London.
  • The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center.
  • However, his expense for medicines was not great; for he was the most expert man at a succedaneum of any apothecary in
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