单词 | allopathy |
释义 | allopathyn. Esp. in the terminology of homoeopathists: orthodox medical treatment or practice (esp. as regarded as being based on creating a condition contrary to the one being treated). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > allopathy allopathy1832 enantiopathy1852 1832 Gen. Index Edinb. Rev. 11/2 Allopathy, the doctrine of curing diseases by contraries, how treated by Hahnemann. 1842 F. Black Princ. & Pract. Homœopathy i. 2 The term Allopathy, as a general term, is applied to the present prevailing system of medicine. 1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses xx. 291 No man of sense believes that allopathy is all wrong and homœopathy all right. 1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 359/1 Your letters would be antidotal, and thus, by a sort of mental allopathy, beneficial. 1923 Lancet 7 July 26/1 It would be as difficult for the orthodox medical practitioner to draw up his creed of allopathy. 1989 M. Kheel in J. Plant Healing Wounds 109 For convenience, I have used the term ‘western medicine’ to refer to the practice of ‘allopathy’ which has become the orthodoxy of the medical world today. 2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures viii. 165 If there was anything the first generation of osteopaths hated as much as allopathy, it was chiropractic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。