Allopathic

Definition: Allopathic

Allopathic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the practice of allopathy; "allopathic remedies".

Date "allopathic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Etymology: Allopathic \Al`lo*path"ic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression allopathique.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: homeopathic (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Allopathic

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remedy	Allopathic, heteropathic, homeopathic, hydropathic; anthelmintic; antifebrile, antiluetic; aperient, chalybeate, deobstruent, depurative, laxative, roborant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Allopathic

English words defined with "allopathic": Allopathically, Antipathic ♦ Heteropathic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Allopathic

Domain	Title
Books	Allopathic vs. Natural Medicine (reference) Homeopathic Influences in 19th Century Allopathic Therapeutics (reference) The Harm of Allopathic Western Medicine (Western Medicine: Drugs Degenerate the Body) (reference) The Premedical Planning Guide to Allopathic (M.D., Osteopathic) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Allopathic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The private sector includes two different types of facilities; these are allopathic and eastern systems of medicines. (references)
		Health care system in Pakistan consists of three categories; allopathic, unani (traditional medicine system) and homeopathic. (references)
Economic History	India	Under this new policy, nearly the entire industry was freed from licensing constraints; the pricing policy was liberalized with high mark ups allowed for all categories of drugs under price control; the number of drugs under the price control was reduced from 370 to 166. The D&P industry in India has grown steadily over the years and is currently estimated at US $3.75 billion (traditional medicine US $0.75 billion and allopathic medicine US $3 billion). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Allopathic

"Allopathic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Allopathic" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allopathic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
allopathic medicine	20
allopathic	18
allopathic pre	12
allopathic physician	5
allopathic medical school	4
accepted allopathic applicant does female get have into medical school state successfully united white	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Allopathic

Language		Translations for "allopathic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		αλλοπαθητικόσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		allopathicay

Russian		аллопатический. (various references)

Spanish		alopático. (various references)

Ukranian		алопатичний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Allopathic

Misspellings
	"Allopathic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aleopathic, aliopathic, alleopathic, allopathie, allopathists, Allopathy, allophatic, alloplastic, alopathic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Allopathic"

Words rhyming with "allopathic" (pronounced 'Al`lo*path"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Allopathic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-l-o-p-t"
	-2 letters: allopath, caliphal, haptical.
	-3 letters: acholia, aphotic, calathi, capital, capitol, challot, chapati, coalpit, hilltop, lochial, optical, phallic, potlach, tapioca, thallic, topical.
	-4 letters: apical, atopic, caliph, capita, catalo, challa, chalot, chital, cholla, citola, coital, halloa, hallot, haptic, hiatal, hilloa, laical, lochia, pallia, phalli, phatic, photic, plical, tapalo, thalli.
	-5 letters: aitch, allot, aloha, alpha, altho, atoll, calla.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-l-o-p-t"
	+2 letters: allelopathic, pathological.
	+4 letters: aphoristically, cycloaliphatic, hypostatically, idiopathically, metallographic, metaphorically, pathologically.
	+5 letters: anthropological, astrophysically, atmospherically, autographically, autotrophically, diastrophically, homeopathically, metamorphically, neuropathically, osteopathically, philanthropical, phototactically, plainclothesman, saprophytically, sycophantically, topographically, typographically.
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