allopathy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A system of heroic medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce the opposite effect.
Conventional Western medicine; a method or treatment therein.

/əˈlɒp.ə.θi/ /ˈæl.oʊˌpæθ.i/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mathmitch7-allopathy.wav /əˈlo.pə.t̪ʰi/

allopathy allopathies allœopathy

Borrowed from German Allopathie, allo- + -pathy, originally a pejorative term.

allopathic medicine

allopath allopathetic allopathic allopathically allopathist allopathogen

Catalan: al·lopatia Finnish: allopatia German: Allopathie Indonesian: alopati Polish: alopatia Russian: аллопатия Swedish: allopati

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