See Also: Contact healing(health)
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healing(dictionary)
Healing(medicine)
faith healing(medicine)
faith healing(encyclopedia)
Distance healing(health)
healing by first intention(medicine)
healing by second intention(medicine)
healing by third intention(medicine)

pathognomonic (medicine) and Contact healing (health)


pathognomonic (medicine)


pathognomonic
<medicine> Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. "The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy." (Arbuthnot)

Origin: Gr. Skilled in judging of diseases; a disease + skilled: cf. F. Pathognomonique. See Gnomic.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Contact healing (health)


Another name for the alternative medicine practice of laying on of hands.