clinical ecology

noun phrase
[L1337483]

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Forms

  • singular : clinical ecology
  • plural : clinical ecologies

Senses

  • form of medical practice based on two concepts: that a broad range of environmental chemicals and foods can be responsible for an illness in which an unlimited variety of symptoms occur in the absence of objective physical findings, pathologic abnormalities, or specific, abnormal results of laboratory tests; and that the immune system is functionally depressed by many environmental chemicals