Definition of Chiropractics

1. Noun. The practice of a chiropractor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chiropractics

1. chiropractic [n] - See also: chiropractic

Medical Definition of Chiropractics

1. The medical study of diagnosing and treating backdisorders through manual manipulation of the spine. (05 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiropractics

chironomid
chironomidae
chironomids
chiroplast
chiroplasts
chiroplasty
chiropodalgia
chiropodies
chiropodist
chiropodists
chiropody
chiropompholyx
chiropractic
chiropractic manual manipulation
chiropractic physician
chiropractics
chiropractor
chiropractors
chiropter
chiropteran
chiropterans
chiropterologist
chiropterologists
chiropterophilia
chiropters
chiroptic
chiroptical
chiros
chiroscope
chirosophist

Literary usage of Chiropractics

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

1. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1922)
"We also have the personnel physician—experts, specialists; the chiropractics, osteopaths, and homeopaths of industrial problems. Why is all this so? ..."

2. History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922 by Logan Esarey, William F. Cronin (1922)
"At this lime he entered the Palmer College of Chiropractics at Davenport, Iowa, and was graduated therefrom in 1921 with the degree of Doctor of ..."

3. Medical education in the United States and Canada: a report to the Carnegie by Abraham Flexner (1910)
"The chiropractics, the mechano-therapists, and several others are not medical sectarians, though exceedingly desirous of masquerading as such; ..."

4. Northwest Medicine by Washington Medical Library Association (1907)
"... so-called osteopaths, chiropractics, etc., who could not show a reason for existence, according to the proposed standards, and who well knew they could ..."

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