Meaning of armamentarium | Babel Free

Definitions

All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.

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Examples

“Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor’s armamentarium.”

“Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.”

“Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines.”

“The most important tool in the photographer's armamentarium for evaluating the range of possibilities at each site is his or her feet.”

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