Skip to content

allopathy

Today it means: A system of heroic medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce the opposite effect. Full definition →

German Allopathie

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

The story

German · borrowed fromAllopathie
English todayallopathy

Borrowed from German Allopathie, allo- + -pathy, originally a pejorative term.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.