The treatment of disease with extracts from animal organs, especially glands.
器官疗法
Example sentencesExamples
Organotherapy is based on the discovery that many diseases are accompanied by minute changes in the cells and their function.
Organotherapy targets specific organs and tissues.
Brown-Séquard's advocacy gave rise to a renewed interest in the 1890s in what was now called ‘organotherapy’: the use of extracts of animal organs as therapeutic agents.
Organotherapy has a direct effect on stimulating the function of the organ by enhancing the selection of enzymes and specific nucleic acids lacking in the organ.
This use is thought to have originated from the idea, going back to Roman times, that consumption of animal genitalia is an effective way to treat sexual problems (‘organotherapy‘).’
Derivatives
organotherapeutic
adjective
In 1935 David et al. isolated the critical ingredient in organotherapeutic treatments, testosterone.
Definition of organotherapy in US English:
organotherapy
noun
The treatment of disease with extracts from animal organs, especially glands.
器官疗法
Example sentencesExamples
Organotherapy targets specific organs and tissues.
Organotherapy has a direct effect on stimulating the function of the organ by enhancing the selection of enzymes and specific nucleic acids lacking in the organ.
This use is thought to have originated from the idea, going back to Roman times, that consumption of animal genitalia is an effective way to treat sexual problems (‘organotherapy‘).’
Organotherapy is based on the discovery that many diseases are accompanied by minute changes in the cells and their function.
Brown-Séquard's advocacy gave rise to a renewed interest in the 1890s in what was now called ‘organotherapy’: the use of extracts of animal organs as therapeutic agents.