Organotherapy

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The therapeutic use of the endocrine organs (or glandular extracts) of animals. countable, uncountable

    "Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy."

Synonyms

All synonyms
glandular therapyglandular therapyoccupational therapyopotherapyopotherapyphysiotherapy

Example

More examples

"Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy."

Etymology

From organo- + therapy.

More for "organotherapy"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.