hy·drop·a·thy

(hī-drŏp′ə-thē)

n. pl. hy·drop·a·thies

Internal and external use of water as a therapeutic treatment for all forms of disease.

hy′dro·path′ic (hī′drə-păth′ĭk), hy′dro·path′i·cal adj.

hy·drop′a·thist, hy′dro·path′ n.

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hydropathy

(haɪˈdrɒpəθɪ)

(Complementary Medicine) a pseudoscientific method of treating disease by the use of large quantities of water both internally and externally. Also called: water cure Compare hydrotherapy

hydropathic, ˌhydroˈpathical adj

hyˈdropathist, ˈhydroˌpath n

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hy•drop•a•thy

(haɪˈdrɒp ə θi)

n.

a method of treating disease by immersing the body or body part in water, by taking water internally, or both.

[1835–45]

hy•dro•path•ic (ˌhaɪ drəˈpæθ ɪk) hy`dro•path′i•cal, adj.

hy•drop′a•thist, hy′dro•path`, n.

hydropathy

the “water cure,” first developed in Germany in 1825. Also called hydriatrics. — hydropathist, n. — hydropathic, adj.

See also: Water

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hydropathy - the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease

hydrotherapy

treatment, intervention - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

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With these appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy, of mesmerism, of phrenology, and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles!

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We identified putative transmembrane regions by prediction of the hydropathy profile using TMHMM (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ TMHMM-2.0) and predicted N-linked glycosylation sites using the NetNGlyc 1.0 server (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetNGlyc).

Sand Fly-Associated Phlebovirus with Evidence of Neutralizing Antibodies in Humans, Kenya

Hydropathy analysis showed that cABCG2 protein was a hydrophobic protein and its average of hydrophobicity was 0.1394.

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION, EXPRESSION PATTERNS AND METHYLATION ANALYSIS OF ATP-BINDING CASSETTE SUB-FAMILY G MEMBER 2 (ABCG2) IN BROILERS

These envelope proteins were subjected to sequence analysis using Protparam software (36) wherein, the purpose was to study their overall aliphatic index and GRAVY score (Grand Average of hydropathy).

Identification of Potential Lead Molecules for Zika Envelope Protein from In Silico Perspective

Not unlike hydropathy and homeopathy, naturopathy drew from the ranks of German healers, philosophical idealists, spiritual and mental healers, vegetarians, botanics, antivaccination and antivivisectionists, and individualists who rejected authority, including licensing, in their endorsement of "every man his own physician." Emerging at a time when conventional medicine was not much different from other "panthies," and had yet to absorb modern science and bacteriology, naturopathy fed off the public's disdain for conventional medicine's heavy-handed efforts to standardize and professionalize itself as the lone repository of medical truth.

Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America

Figure 1 shows on the right the interaction matrix when the physicochemical property "Hydropathy index" is used.

Remote-3DD: un nuevo metodo para la deteccion de homologos remotos que usa propiedades fisicoquimicas

(68) (D) Net charge versus hydropathy analysis predict PQBP1 is disordered.

Ultra-early phase pathologies of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

Grand average of hydropathicity (GRAVY) is -0.132, classified as hydrophilia protein (hydrophobic protein: 0 < GRAVY < 2; hydrophilia protein: -2 < GRAVY < 0), the analysis of hydropathy profile using ProtScal program of ExPASy has the same result, and most of amino acid residues have stronger hydrophilicity, whereas N-end and C-end regions have hydrophobicity.

Molecular Cloning and Expression Analysis of Cu/Zn SOD Gene from Gynura bicolor DC

The results of GRAVY (grand average of hydropathy) in 3-phytase A and 3-phytase B (-0.304 and -0.33, resp.) are obtained by combining the values of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of the side chains in their sequences.

"In Silico" Characterization of 3-Phytase A and 3-Phytase B from Aspergillus niger