Etymology
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From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).
Pronunciation
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chiropractor (plural chiropractors)
- A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic, the hands on or hand-held instrumental movement of the bone structure of the body to improve the function of the joints or nervous system.
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Translations
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chiropractor
- Arabic: مُقَوِّم اَلْعِظَام m (muqawwim al-ʕiẓām)
- Catalan: quiropràctic m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 脊骨神經科醫生／脊骨神经科医生 (jǐgǔ shénjīng kē yīshēng), 脊醫／脊医 (jǐyī)
- Czech: chiropraktik m
- Dutch: chiropracticus (nl) m, chiropractor (nl) m
- Finnish: kiropraktikko (fi)
- French: chiropracteur (fr) m, chiropractrice f, chiropraticien (fr) m, chiropraticienne (fr) f
- German: Chiropraktiker (de) m, Chiropraktikerin (de) f, Manualtherapeut m, Manualtherapeutin f
- Icelandic: kírópraktor m, hnykklæknir m
- Italian: chiropratico
- Japanese: カイロプラクター (kairopurakutā), カイロプラクティック (kairopurakutikku)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kiropraktor m
- Nynorsk: kiropraktor m
- Polish: kręgarz (pl) m, chiropraktyk m
- Portuguese: quiroprático m, quiropraxista m or f
- Romanian: chiropractician m, chiropracticiană f
- Russian: хиропра́ктор m (xiropráktor), костопра́в (ru) m (kostopráv)
- Spanish: quiropráctico m, quiropráctica f
- Swedish: kiropraktor (sv) c
- Turkish: kiropraktör
- Volapük: (♂♀) namaplägan, (♂) namahiplägan, (♀) namajiplägan
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