Meanings
nounmechanotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural mechanotherapies)
plural mechanotherapies
- countableuncountablemedicineA type of physiotherapy designed to promote health through exercise and massage.
They were anxious to ship me to Milan where there were better X-ray facilities and where, after the operation, I could take mechano-therapy.
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 78
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Origin
- Swedishmekanoterapi
- Englishmechanotherapy
From mechano- + therapy, after Swedish mekanoterapi.
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mechanotherapy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mechanotherapy
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