Word.ws English Dictionary

ichthyotherapy

ichthyotherapy noun: the use of fish for therapeutic treatment, especially for cleaning wounds.

Noun

ichthyotherapy (uncountable)

  1. The use of fish for therapeutic treatment, especially for cleaning wounds.

Origin of ichthyotherapy

From ichthyo- + therapy.

Questions about ichthyotherapy

What does ichthyotherapy mean?
Ichthyotherapy means the use of fish for therapeutic treatment, especially for cleaning wounds.
What part of speech is ichthyotherapy?
Ichthyotherapy is a noun.

Words near ichthyotherapy in the dictionary

  1. ichthyosporids
  2. ichthyostegalian
  3. ichthyostegid
  4. ichthyostegids
  5. ichthyotheology
  6. ichthyotherapy
  7. ichthyotic
  8. ichthyotomist
  9. ichthyotomists
  10. ichthyotomous
  11. ichthyotomy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ichthyotherapy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ichthyotherapy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ichthyotherapy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.