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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homeopathy \Ho*me*op"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? likeness of condition or feeling; ? like (fr. ? same; cf. Same ) + ? to suffer: cf. F. hom['e]opathie. See Pathos .] (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated [syn: homoeopathy ] [ant: allopathy ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann , based on his doctrine of like cures like ( similia similibus curentur ), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Almost two in three of the 897 housewives surveyed in June believed homeopathy and acupuncture were effective. ▪ As always with homeopathy , the choice of acute remedy depends on your child's symptoms. ▪ Brenda has started a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.
Usage examples of homeopathy.
It combined all the best features of osteopathy, chiropracty, magnetism, homeopathy, and other systems of drugless medicine.
We could hospitalize you, stuff you with drugs, irradiate your skin, smear you with calamine lotion, even conduct experiments in homeopathy and acupuncture and moxibustion.