hand / sign language / chiropractics

(informal, countable) A chiropractor. / (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

plural of chiro

One who practices chiromancy; a palm reader.

Divination performed by examining the lines in the palms.

(alternative medicine) A system of health care involving manipulation of the spinal column and other body structures, for the purpose of alleviating neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction.

Relating to chiropractics.

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.

(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the feet (and formerly the hands)

A practitioner of chiropody