osteopath
IPA: ɑstiʌpˈæθ
noun
- (alternative medicine) A non-physician healthcare practitioner who practices osteopathy by manipulating the skeleton and muscles. Not to be confused with Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) (also known as osteopathic physicians) who are full physicians like Doctors of Medicine (M.D.).
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Examples of "osteopath" in Sentences
- An osteologist is not an osteopath.
- I am an osteopath, who also has a PhD.
- As an osteopath, I am interested to know.
- Shigure is a demon surgeon and an osteopath.
- This osteopath thing is a tempest in a teapot.
- Her father, Dr. A.B. Van Dyke, was an osteopath.
- Thanks for backing me up on that osteopath issue.
- This individual is not a dentist, he is an osteopath.
- He became friends with the osteopath, Doctor Stephen Ward.
- Osteopaths are there to educate patients as much as to treat them.
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