panacea
a solution to all problems
TRANSLATION
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STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Wind power is often seen as a PANACEA for renewable energy delivery. However, in the domestic sector, these systems may generate more carbon than they save when the turbines' manufacture and delivery is taken into account.
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Communication is everyone's PANACEA for everything.
- Management guru Tom Peters
(BBC News)
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Communication is everyone's PANACEA for everything.
- Management guru Tom Peters
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panacea
noun
- a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Panacea is borrowed from the Latin panacea, an all-healing herb, and from the Greek panakeia, meaning cure-all and panakes, all-healing (pan=all + akes=cure).
In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of healing. She was the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, god of healing (among other things).
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, Meditrina was the goddess of longevity, and Aglaea was the goddess of natural beauty.
Panacea also had four brothers — Polidarius, 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; Telesphorus, who devoted his life to serving Asclepius; and Aratus, her step-brother, 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.
(sources: The Encyclopedia Mythica, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
cure-all, heal-all
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Technology is not a panacea for the world's problems, but it certainly leads to lots of innovative solutions."
noun
- a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Panacea is borrowed from the Latin panacea, an all-healing herb, and from the Greek panakeia, meaning cure-all and panakes, all-healing (pan=all + akes=cure).
In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of healing. She was the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, god of healing (among other things).
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, Meditrina was the goddess of longevity, and Aglaea was the goddess of natural beauty.
Panacea also had four brothers — Polidarius, 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; Telesphorus, who devoted his life to serving Asclepius; and Aratus, her step-brother, 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.
(sources: The Encyclopedia Mythica, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
cure-all, heal-all
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Technology is not a panacea for the world's problems, but it certainly leads to lots of innovative solutions."
