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autotherapy

autotherapy noun: the spontaneous cure of a medical condition.

Noun

autotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural autotherapies)

  1. The spontaneous cure of a medical condition.
  2. Self-treatment of a medical condition.
  3. Treament of a disease by administration of filtrates from the patient's own pathological secretions, such as the ingestion of discharge from wounds.

Forms of autotherapy

pluralautotherapies

Origin of autotherapy

From auto- + therapy.

Questions about autotherapy

What does autotherapy mean?
Autotherapy means the spontaneous cure of a medical condition.
What part of speech is autotherapy?
Autotherapy is a noun.
What is the plural of autotherapy?
The plural of autotherapy is autotherapies.

Words near autotherapy in the dictionary

  1. autotheoretical
  2. autotheories
  3. autotheory
  4. autotherapeutic
  5. autotherapies
  6. autotherapy
  7. autothermal
  8. autothermic
  9. autothermy
  10. autothonous
  11. autothrottle

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