osteopathy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: osteopathy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for osteopathy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
osteopathy n therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Osteopathy \Os`teop"athy\, n. [Osteo- + Gr. [?] suffering.] (Med.) (a) Any disease of the bones. [R.] (b) A system of treatment based on the theory that diseases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts.