allopathic medicine
nounA kind of medicine where doctors use pills and operations to fight sickness.
When she got a bad infection, her doctor used allopathic medicine to give her antibiotics.
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2. The usual system of medical care taught in most medical schools, based on science and treating symptoms with drugs or surgery.
Many people try herbal remedies before turning to allopathic medicine.
3. A term sometimes used by alternative healers to describe regular doctors' methods, often contrasted with homeopathy.
The homeopath explained how his approach differed from allopathic medicine.
4. Medical practice that treats disease by producing effects different from the symptoms, such as giving a painkiller for pain.
In allopathic medicine, a fever might be lowered with medicine rather than encouraged.