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noun
A branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: treatment, intervention
History
From Czech náprava (“correction”) + -pathy, coined in the early 1900s by Doctor Oakley Garfield Smith.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
