Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who practices or advocates allopathy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An allopathist; one who favors or Practises allopathy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An allopathist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A practitioner of
allopathy
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was a well-grounded fear, and avoidance of the allopath was a wise decision.
If a Tree Falls: If a Patient is Assaulted Under Anesthesia 2009
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Yet virtually every action taken by the allopath is a conscious compromise between the potential harm of the therapy and its potential benefit.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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The allopath was a distant "ancestor" of my teachers., and to infer - or outright state - that current medicine is actually allopathy is frankly ridiculous.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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But in fact Hahnemann, who founded homeopathy, had coined the term "allopath" to describe conventional medical practitioners -- in effect, his enemies.
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a different way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a different way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a different way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a '' different '' way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a '' different '' way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Don't homeopaths still use "allopath" in a '' different '' way than the way described in this article at present (to mean something like "mainstream medical doctor"?).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
hernesheir commented on the word allopath
allopathist
March 17, 2011