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Allopathic medicine
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Allopathic medicine"The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. Also called conventional medicine. The term ""allopathy"" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself."
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Medical
Pertaining to Medicine.
Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Homeopathy
Medical treatment based on the theory that certain diseases can be cured by giving very small doses of substances that, in a healthy person, would produce symptoms like those of the disease.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Allodynia
Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain.
Alloerotic
Having to do with sexual excitement toward the same sex. The opposite is heteroerotic.
Allogeneic
Having a genetic dissimilarity within the same species.
Allogeneic graft
See: Allograft.
Allogeneic transplantation
To transfer a tissue or organ genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species.
Allograft
A tissue transplant (graft) between two genetically nonidentical members of a species.
Allograft (allogenic graft or homograft)
An organ or tissue transplanted from one individual to another of the same species, i.e. human to human.
Allopath
Or allopathist. A term sometimes applied to a physician who practices conventional medicine (allopathy).
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Allopathist
See: Allopath.
Allopathy
"The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. The term ""allopathy"" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself."
Alloplastic
Referring to adaptation by means of altering the external environment. This can be contrasted to autoplastic, which refers to the alteration of one's own behavior and responses.
Allopurinol
Allopurinol is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): allopurinol .
Allopurinol sodium
Allopurinol sodium is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): allopurinol sodium .
Allosex-aviodancy
a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to members of the other, but not one's own, sex. It affects both behavior (as in locker-room nudity, for example) and communication, as in sexual joking
Allotypes
Antigenic determinants that are present in allelic (alternate) forms. When used in association with immunoglobulin, allotypes describe allelic variants of immunoglobulins detected by antibodies raised between members of the same species.
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Allergy, peanut
See: Peanut allergy.
Alloerotic
Having to do with sexual excitement toward the same sex. The opposite is heteroerotic.
Allogeneic graft
See: Allograft.
Allopath
Or allopathist. A term sometimes applied to a physician who practices conventional medicine (allopathy).
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Allopathic medicine
Allopathist
See: Allopath.
Allopathy
"The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. The term ""allopathy"" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself."
ALMS1
A gene on chromosome 2p13. Alstrom syndrome is caused by mutation of ALMS1.
Alopecia capitis totalis
Loss of all of the scalp hair. Alopecia means baldness and capitis refers to the head. Alopecia capitis totalis is thus total baldness of the scalp with normal hair elsewhere on the body.
Alopecia universalis
"Absence of all of the hair, not only on the scalp, but also on the entire body. Affected individuals are born without eyebrows and eyelashes and never develop axillary or pubic hair. There are hair follicles but they are devoid of hair. The disorder is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. It is caused by a mutation in a gene dubbed HR in chromosome band 8p21.2 that is the human homolog of the mouse ""hairless"" gene -- the human version of the gene in the mouse that is responsible for hairless mice."
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Medical
Pertaining to Medicine.
Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Homeopathy
Medical treatment based on the theory that certain diseases can be cured by giving very small doses of substances that, in a healthy person, would produce symptoms like those of the disease.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Allodynia
Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain.
Alloerotic
Having to do with sexual excitement toward the same sex. The opposite is heteroerotic.
Allogeneic
Having a genetic dissimilarity within the same species.
Allogeneic graft
See: Allograft.
Allogeneic transplantation
To transfer a tissue or organ genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species.
Allograft
A tissue transplant (graft) between two genetically nonidentical members of a species.
Allograft (allogenic graft or homograft)
An organ or tissue transplanted from one individual to another of the same species, i.e. human to human.
Allopath
Or allopathist. A term sometimes applied to a physician who practices conventional medicine (allopathy).
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Allopathist
See: Allopath.
Allopathy
"The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. The term ""allopathy"" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself."
Alloplastic
Referring to adaptation by means of altering the external environment. This can be contrasted to autoplastic, which refers to the alteration of one's own behavior and responses.
Allopurinol
Allopurinol is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): allopurinol .
Allopurinol sodium
Allopurinol sodium is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): allopurinol sodium .
Allosex-aviodancy
a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to members of the other, but not one's own, sex. It affects both behavior (as in locker-room nudity, for example) and communication, as in sexual joking
Allotypes
Antigenic determinants that are present in allelic (alternate) forms. When used in association with immunoglobulin, allotypes describe allelic variants of immunoglobulins detected by antibodies raised between members of the same species.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Allergy, peanut
See: Peanut allergy.
Alloerotic
Having to do with sexual excitement toward the same sex. The opposite is heteroerotic.
Allogeneic graft
See: Allograft.
Allopath
Or allopathist. A term sometimes applied to a physician who practices conventional medicine (allopathy).
Allopathic
Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded.
Allopathic medicine
Allopathist
See: Allopath.
Allopathy
"The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. The term ""allopathy"" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself."
ALMS1
A gene on chromosome 2p13. Alstrom syndrome is caused by mutation of ALMS1.
Alopecia capitis totalis
Loss of all of the scalp hair. Alopecia means baldness and capitis refers to the head. Alopecia capitis totalis is thus total baldness of the scalp with normal hair elsewhere on the body.
Alopecia universalis
"Absence of all of the hair, not only on the scalp, but also on the entire body. Affected individuals are born without eyebrows and eyelashes and never develop axillary or pubic hair. There are hair follicles but they are devoid of hair. The disorder is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. It is caused by a mutation in a gene dubbed HR in chromosome band 8p21.2 that is the human homolog of the mouse ""hairless"" gene -- the human version of the gene in the mouse that is responsible for hairless mice."
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