| homeopath | A person who practices homeopathy. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| homeopathic | 1. Relating to homeopathy. Synonym: homeotherapeutic. 2. Denoting an extremely small dose of a pharmacological agent, such as might be used in homeopathy; more generally, a dose believed to be too small to produce the effect usually expected from that agent. Compare: pharmacologic, physiologic, supraphysiologic. Origin: homeo-+ G. Pathos, disease (05 Mar 2000) |
| homeopathist | A medical practitioner of homeopathy. Synonym: homeopath. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homeopathy | <medicine> The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. Alternative forms: homoepathy. Origin: Gr. Likeness of condition or feeling; like (fr. Same; cf. Same) + to suffer: cf. F. Homeopathie. See Pathos. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| homeoplasia | The formation of new tissue of the same character as that already existing in the part. Synonym: homoioplasia. Origin: homeo-+ G. Plasis, a molding (05 Mar 2000) |
| homeoplastic | Relating to or characterised by homeoplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |