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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
osteopath
noun
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▪ An osteopath whom he consulted recommended that he continue the radiation and in addition prescribed a number of sessions of osteopathic manipulation.
▪ And now backpain week has been designated by doctors and osteopaths to make us more aware of the problem.
▪ Back-strengthening exercises are a must and can be taught by a physiotherapist or osteopath.
▪ But capable, for the first time, of getting from A to B without calling in at the osteopaths.
▪ His son, Mark, trained as an osteopath or something and set up in practice here.
▪ Meanwhile June Fox is spending the Dons she earns teaching word processing on the services of an osteopath.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osteopath

Osteopath \Os"te*o*path\, n. A practitioner of osteopathy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
osteopath

1897, back-formation from osteopathy.

Wiktionary
osteopath

n. (context alternative medicine English) A non-physician healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles. Not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Osteopathic%20Medicine (D.O.) who are full physicians like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Medicine (M.D.)

WordNet
osteopath

n. a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles [syn: osteopathist]

Usage examples of "osteopath".

American Association of Physicians, Surgeons, and Osteopaths staged a press conference at which a videotape was shown to the press and then disseminated to all of the networks.

The Cozzano campaign issued a press release stating that the American Association of Physicians, Surgeons, and Osteopaths had not existed until some two weeks previously, and appeared to have a membership of three, all of whom had shown up at the press conference two days ago as experts urging Cozzano to withdraw from the race.

Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent amber of dreams.

True Believer, a Saved Soul, in you, you acquired a detestation of patent medicines, of osteopaths and chiropractors, of homeopaths and herbalists, of all quacks, midwives, and pretenders to medical knowledge, which was the property of your brotherhood, and you knew with whatever modesty lay in you, that you were a creature apart.