Definition of Chiropractor

1. Noun. A therapist who practices chiropractic.

Generic synonyms: Healer, Therapist

Definition of Chiropractor

1. Noun. A health care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic, the hands on or hand-held instrumental movement of the bone structure of the body to improve the function of the joints and/or nervous system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chiropractor

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Chiropractor

1. Someone who practices chiropractic. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiropractor

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chiropodalgia
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chiropractic
chiropractic manual manipulation
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chiropractor (current term)
chiropractors
chiropter
chiropteran
chiropterans
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chiroptical
chiros
chiroscope
chirosophist
chirosophists

Literary usage of Chiropractor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"The petition alleges that the defendant is a chiropractor; that he visits the ... The defendant's answer admits that he Is a chiropractor, as alleged in the ..."

2. The Science of chiropractic: Its Principles and Adjustments by Daniel David Palmer, Bartlett Joshua Palmer (1906)
"The chiropractor may attain such by saying to the child at the proper psychic ... The chiropractor mechanically drives the suggestion home, by adjusting the ..."

3. Personal hygiene applied by Jesse Feiring Williams (1922)
"Especially since the autopsy showed that the boy died of a ruptured appendix following the "adjustments" of the chiropractor. ..."

4. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and by Jacob Piatt Dunn (1919)
"FRANK J. WRIGHT, DC, a leading chiropractor of the City of Indianapolis, ... The education of a chiropractor includes the training of the touch to a degree ..."

5. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"We gather from the brief of counsel that one who practices the system is technically designated as a ''chiropractor." The legislature in formulating the ..."

6. Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed at the ... Session of the by Nebraska, Legislature (1915)
"Provided, further, the examiners may in their discretion, dispense with the examination in case, first, of a chiropractor duly authorized to practice ..."

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