Definitions
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- noun medicine The
spontaneous cure of a medical condition. - noun medicine
Self-treatment of a medical condition. - noun medicine Treament of a disease by administration of
filtrates from the patient's ownpathological secretions , such as theingestion ofdischarge fromwounds .
Etymologies
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auto- + therapy
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Examples
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And now this great German mind stretching across the centre of Europe in seventy million brains was incapable of autotherapy, and let its sickness have its way with it.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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