The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχείρ“hand”
- English todaychiropractor
From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχείρ all →
chiropracticcheiropterygiumcheremecherologychiroplastchiropracticschiropterchiropterologistchiropterology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.