Definition of 'complementary'

It has many different and complementary pieces.

But lots of patients also turn to complementary approaches.

Thus the approach taken in this book centres around the two complementary issues of attitude and skill.

Alternative explanations can be complementary rather than mutually exclusive.

An independent charitable organization sponsoring and publishing research into complementary medicine.

This special issue reflects these two contrasting yet complementary aspects of the same world.

The increased choice that is granted to parents has two complementary virtues.

She added that much of the research by the two organisations was complementary.

Charity experts are highly complementary about the two mergers.

But are the two churches biologically complementary?

The two companies' products also look complementary.

That's one of the reasons for the growth in complementary medicines.

Doctors and patients need to make a clear distinction between alternative medicine, complementary medicine and conventional medicine.

Maybe one day the time will come when we will begin to think of the various forms of medicine as being complementary to each other.

Will any complementary medicines help?

It is also proof that complementary deals are safer than far-reaching ones as companies seek to grow in these improved economic conditions.

It is therefore far too simplistic to regard complementary medicine as a single thing, opposed to an equally homogeneous orthodox approach.

The secret of their relationship, according to friends, is their different but complementary strengths.

He says: 'We are different and quite complementary.

This brilliantly planned programme is executed with poetry, drama and verve by two complementary pianists who clearly think as one in this sublime chamber music.

This is where the idea of different, but complementary roles, for men and women comes from.

These days, when the term complementary medicine is being used, it always means to denote other forms of medicine being complementary to orthodox medicine.

Generally and statistically speaking, men and women have different and sometimes complementary minds and abilities, just as they have different and sometimes complementary bodies.