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osteopathy

a system of healing based on the manipulation of bones or other parts of the body
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osteopathy

[‚äs·tē′äp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
A school of healing which teaches that the body is a vital mechanical organism whose structural and functional integrity are coordinate and interdependent, the abnormality of either constituting disease.
Any disease of bone.
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Osteomyelitis, osteopetrosis, osteopoikilosis, and osteopathia striata should all be considered in the differential diagnosis, (9, 10) but the most important differential diagnosis of melorheostosis is bone tumors producing dense bone, primarily the various types of osteosarcoma.
(4) Department of Osteopathia, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, No.
[4], including osteoma-like, myositis ossificans-like and osteopathia striata-like variants.
The differential diagnosis includes osteoblastic bone metastasis, tuberous sclerosis, mastocytosis, melorheostosis, and osteopathia striata.
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