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isopathy

isopathy noun: the system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

Noun

isopathy (uncountable)

  1. The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
  2. (historical) The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
    • if the hearing is affected, Isopathy makes you a night-cap trimmed with the ears of a calf!1849, Water-cure Journal
  3. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

Origin of isopathy

From iso- + -pathy.

Questions about isopathy

What does isopathy mean?
Isopathy means the system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
What part of speech is isopathy?
Isopathy is a noun.

Words near isopathy in the dictionary

  1. isoparaffins
  2. isoparametric
  3. isoparm
  4. isoparms
  5. isopatchoulenone
  6. isopathy
  7. isopectic
  8. isopectics
  9. isopedine
  10. isopedines
  11. isopenicillin

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