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COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

\kˌɒmplɪmˈɛntəɹi kˈʌləz], \kˌɒmplɪmˈɛntəɹi kˈʌləz], \k_ˌɒ_m_p_l_ɪ_m_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_ɹ_i k_ˈʌ_l_ə_z]\

Definitions of COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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C. With an abundant purulent discharge, usually gonorrheal in origin.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Those which when blended produce a white.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Any two colors which, when combined together, produce white light; each of the two is then said to be complementary, "opposite," "harmonic," or "in contrast" to the other.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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