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A non-physician healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles. Not to be confused with Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) (also known as osteopathic physicians) who are full physicians like Doctors of Medicine (M.D.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: alternative-medicine, medicine, sciences
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a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: osteopathist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: therapist, healer
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
остеопат
(osteopat)
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Catalan:
osteòpata
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Dutch:
osteopaat
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Esperanto:
osteopato
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Finnish:
osteopaatti
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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French:
ostéopathe
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Icelandic:
hnykkir
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Icelandic:
bein- og liðskekkjulæknir
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Irish:
oistéapat
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Italian:
osteopata
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Polish:
osteopata
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Romanian:
osteopat
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Serbo-Croatian:
osteòpat
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
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Welsh:
osteopath
— medicine: a healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
