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noun
The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From iso- + -pathy.
