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osteopathic

osteopathic

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A kind of health care that uses hands to help the body heal itself
  • adjective
  • /ˌɑːstɪˈɒpəθɪk/
  • Specialized
: osteopático
  • Students at Touro University California's College of Osteopathic Medicine gain experience through clinical work in the community.
  • osteopathic medicine
  • osteopathic school
  • osteopathic medical

So osteopathic Med students, those who graduate from DO programs, they tend to have higher loan burdens.

Examples

  • Information reported to DocFinder comes from individual state medical and osteopathic boards.

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  • Osteopathic medical students also receive classroom training in communicating with patients, according to the American Osteopathic Association.

    Blog text (12)

  • The American Osteopathic Association and other osteopathic medical bodies.

    Blog text (12)

  • Other private schools have similar plans to offer osteopathic degrees or are looking at developing curricula in traditional medicine.

    Blog text (29)

  • Still, the field is growing rapidly, from six osteopathic schools of medicine in the 1970s to 29 today, Clearfield said.

    Blog text (12)

  • The various provinces offer chiropractic, osteopathic, optometric, and other physicians' services to different degrees.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Osteopaths are not licensed physicians and are not qualified to practice the full scope of medicine like American-trained osteopathic physicians.

    Blog text (12)

  • When Arkansas State approached the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) about starting an osteopathic school of medicine, Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee was one of its biggest supporters.

    Academic text (2016)

  • An osteopathic doctor uses manual therapy techniques to help patients recover from injuries.

  • She decided to visit an osteopathic clinic to explore a more holistic approach to her health.

Surface Forms

osteopathic positive

Morphology

osteopathic = osteopathy (transparent) = osteopathy + ic

The adjective is a straightforward derivation from the noun 'osteopathy' using the productive suffix '-ic' meaning 'relating to'.

Etymology

The word osteopathic starts with osteo- meaning 'bone' and ends with -pathic meaning 'medical care'. So osteopathic medicine is a kind of treatment that uses the body's bones and structure to help it heal itself.