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allopathy

Pronunciation: /əˈlɒp.ə.θi/

The English word “allopathy” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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

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