The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχείρ“hand”
- English todaychiropractic
From chiro- (“hand”) + practic; from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρακτικός (praktikós, “concerned with action”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχείρ all →
chiropractorcheiropterygiumcheremecherologychiroplastchiropracticschiropterchiropterologistchiropterology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.