Dictionaries › English

isopathy

The English word “isopathy” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
  2. The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
  3. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

Etymology

From iso- + -pathy.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “isopathy” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.