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Allopathy

//əˈlɒp.ə.θi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A system of heroic medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce the opposite effect. uncountable
  2. 2
    the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself wordnet
  3. 3
    Conventional Western medicine; a method or treatment therein. countable

Etymology

Borrowed from German Allopathie, allo- + -pathy, originally a pejorative term.

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