Quackery

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Related terms 1.1.2 Translations

English

Noun

quackery

1. Law and medicine. The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power. Health fraud.

Related terms

• fraud
• quack

Translations

• Chinese (simplified): 庸医的医术 (yongyi-diyizhu)
• Chinese (traditional): 庸醫的醫術 (yongyi-diyizhu)
• Dutch: kwakzalverij
• French: charlatanisme
• German: Quacksalber
• Greek: αγυρτία (agyrtía)
• Italian: frode medica
• Japanese: 偽医療 (にせいりょう niseiryō)
• Korean: 엉터리 치료 (eongteori chiryo)
• Latin: pharmacopolia
• Russian: медицинское очковтирательство (meditsinskoe ochkovtiratelstvo), очковтирательство здоровья (ochkovtiratelstvo zdorovya)
• Spanish: curandería
• Swedish: kvacksalvare