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English

Alternative forms

• allœopathy

Etymology

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

Noun

allopathy (countable and uncountable, plural allopathies)

1. (uncountable, originally) A system of alternative medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce the opposite effect.
2. (countable) A conventional Western medical method or treatment.

Usage notes

• Originally, this indicated solely treatment according to the "law of opposites" rather than the homeopathic "law of similars"; it is now principally used to distinguish conventional medicine from homeopathy (USA, UK, EU), especially in the literature of homeopathy.
• In the United States, the term is sometimes used to distinguish MDs from DOs (osteopathic physicians), usually in discussions of medical education.
• In India, used principally to distinguish "Western medicine" from Ayurveda, especially when comparing treatments and drugs.

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Further reading

• allopathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• lalopathy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

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