opotherapy Med.
(ɒpəˈθɛrəpɪ)
[f. Gr. ὀπός juice + therapy.]
= organotherapy.
| 1897 Index Medicus XIX. 899/2 Opotherapy. 1899 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1897–98 696 An entire new method, designated under the name of opotherapy, or treatment by organic extracts. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 909/1 (heading) Placentophagy and placental opotherapy. 1908 Practitioner Mar. 412 The many different substances recently utilised in opotherapy. 1915 [see ketogenetic adj. s.v. keto- a]. |