zomotherapyn.
/zəʊməʊˈθɛrəpi/ Medicine.
The use of raw meat, or the juice expressed from it, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
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zomotherapy1900
1900 Lancet 27 Oct. 1242/2 The experiments of M. Richet and M. Héricourt relative to the use of raw meat as a prophylactic and curative substance in tuberculosis... Such treatment these observers have called ‘zomotherapy’.
Derivatives
zomotheraˈpeutic adj. pertaining to zomotherapy.
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zomotherapeutic1900
1900 Lancet 27 Oct. 1242/2 At various stages of the zomotherapeutic treatment.
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