organotherapy

(or’gan-o-ther’ap-e) [Gr. ὄργανον organ + θεραπεία therapy]. The treatment of disease by the administration of animal organs or their extracts. See opotherapy. heterologous ο., organotherapy with substances that have no relation to the diseased organ of the patient. homologous o., organothcrapy by extractives of the organs of animals corresponding to the diseased organ of the patient.