osteopathy

1. 1.

   therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles

   Broadertreatment

Other forms of osteopathy

plural

osteopathies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osteopathy

What does osteopathy mean?

osteopathy means "therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles".

How many syllables are in osteopathy?

osteopathy has 5 syllables: o-ste-o-pa-thy. The stress falls on "o".

Is osteopathy a common word?

osteopathy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.