allo-, all- +

An organism parasitic on an unrelated host organism.

An animal showing parental behavior toward young that are not its own.

Relating to or being a male alloparent.

A practitioner of allopathy; that is, a physician who uses allopathy as a method of treating diseases; such as, someone who intervenes actively through medication, surgery, and so on.

Of or relating to allopathy.

Someone who practices substitutive therapy or a therapeutic system in which a disease is treated by producing a second condition that is incompatible with or antagonistic to the first (homeopathy).

1. Substitutive therapy; a therapeutic system in which a disease is treated by producing a second condition that is incompatible with or antagonistic to the first (homeopathy).
2. A method of treating a disease by introducing a condition that is intended to cause a pathologic reaction which will be antagonistic to the condition being treated.
3. A system of medicine in which disease is treated by producing effects opposed to or incompatible with the effects of the disease process.
4. A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself.
5. The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. Medical doctors are said to practice allopathic medicine.

The term "allopathy" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual, or normal, practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) and so produce the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself.

1. Relating to or being two taxonomic entities or populations whose ranges are geographically separate and thus cannot interbreed.
2. Referring to populations or species that occupy naturally exclusive, but usually adjacent, geographical areas.
3. Having separate and mutually exclusive areas of geographical distribution.

Characterizing populations or species, especially ones tht are closely related to one another, that inhabit geographically distinct areas.

1. An evolutionary change leading to the rise of new species resulting from the separation of a population into mutually exclusive geographic regions, thereby creating distinct gene pools.
2. Differentiation of populations in geographical isolation to the point where they are recognized as separate species.

The geographic isolation of populations (organisms or species); especially, from other populations that are closely related to them.

A reference to organisms occurring, or living, at various ocean depths or in the pelagic zones; in response to influences other than temperature.

1. An amorphous clay mineral having a variable composition of aluminum silicate, hydrated water, and traces of other minerals.
2. An amorphous, variously colored, hydrated aluminosilicate mineral.

Incoherent speech.

Incoherent, delirious speech.