chiropractor

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪ.ɹəˌpɹæk.tə(ɹ)/

Noun

chiropractor (plural chiropractors)

1. 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.

Related terms

• chiropractic

Translations

chiropractor

• Arabic: مُقَوِّم اَلْعِظَام m (muqawwim al-ʕiẓām)
• Catalan: quiropràctic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捏積者／捏积者, 捏积者 (niējī-zhě), 脊醫／脊医, 脊医 (jǐyī)

• Czech: chiropraktik m
• French: chiropraticien (fr) m, chiropraticienne (fr) f
• German: Chiropraktiker (de) m, Chiropraktikerin (de) f, Manualtherapeut m, Manualtherapeutin f
• Italian: chiropratico
• Japanese: カイロプラクター (kairopurakutā), カイロプラクティック (kairopurakutikku)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kiropraktor m

  Nynorsk: kiropraktor m

• Polish: kręgarz (pl) 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
• Volapük: (♂♀) namaplägan, (♂) namahiplägan, (♀) namajiplägan