Allopathy Definition
ə-lŏpə-thē
noun
Treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects different from or opposite to those produced by the disease.
Webster's New World
A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself.
American Heritage Medicine
(uncountable) Traditional medicine.
Wiktionary
(countable) A traditional medical method or treatment.
Wiktionary
(figuratively) Organized medicine.
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Other Word Forms of Allopathy
Noun
Singular:
allopathy
Plural:
allopathiesOrigin of Allopathy
allo- + -pathy – term coined by Samuel Hahnemann (the founder of homeopathy) as a pejorative term to indicate medicine that in his opinion treated something "other than" the disharmony that caused the disease. James C. Whorton – Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America
From Wiktionary
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German Allopathie Greek allos other allo– Greek -patheia suffering –pathy
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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