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Definition of Osteopathy
1. Noun. Therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles.
Definition of Osteopathy
1. n. Any disease of the bones.
Definition of Osteopathy
1. Noun. (medicine) The branch of therapy based on manipulation of bones and muscles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Osteopathy
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Medical Definition of Osteopathy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteopathy
Literary usage of Osteopathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The AOA has done much good work for the advancement of osteopathy. In 1899 it
was resolved to raise the standard of equipment " until it shall include every ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"Beginning with the treatment of bone diseases and dislocations solely, osteopathy
has now advanced to the treatment of abnormal conditions of all the bones, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"osteopathy accepts this data and makes use of it in so far as the verifiable facts
... In addition to this, osteopathy presents considerable new material. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Miami Valley by John Calvin Hover (1919)
"osteopathy. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy, often spoke of
Ohio as being second in importance in the developmental history of osteopathy ..."
5. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... CAME TO ORIGINATE osteopathy BY ANDREW T. STILL My first awakening to the
principles which today have culminated in the science called "osteopathy" was ..."
6. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"Patients came from afar, and the practice of osteopathy became known ... The answer
was the opening of the " American School of osteopathy " in the autumn ..."
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