Etymology

naprapathy

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Today it means: A branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Full definition →

Czech náprava
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The story

  1. Czech · derived fromnáprava“correction”
  2. English todaynaprapathy

From Czech náprava (“correction”) + -pathy, coined in the early 1900s by Doctor Oakley Garfield Smith.

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