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UK
/θˌɛɹəpjˈuːtɪk/
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[ US /ˌθɛɹəpˈjutɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌθɛɹəpˈjutɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or involved in therapy
therapeutic approach to criminality -
tending to cure or restore to health
remedial surgery
curative powers of herbal remedies
her gentle healing hand
a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air
a therapeutic agent
therapeutic diets
How To Use therapeutic In A Sentence
- What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
- Several clinical trials are in progress for therapeutic application of genetic diseases, such as hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiencies.
- Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media. The Feel Good Presidency
- Publisher: Information Gatekeepers, Inc. Archemix announces aptamer-based therapeutics agreement with Johnson TILMA Expands on NAFTA
- The study assesses the therapeutic effects of colostrum (the first milk secreted at the end of pregnancy - it has less albumin and lactoprotein in it than milk secreted later) on diarrhea.
- The use of subtherapeutic doses of antimicrobial drugs may drive down hog prices and lower profits for the entire hog industry, a new government report says.
- The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s. The Emperor of All Maladies
- Mechanical percussion techniques have been used therapeutically after shock wave lithotripsy to dislodge such calculi from the lower pole of the kidney.
- Even when you're healthy again, Davies recommends continuing with your therapeutic regimen.
- This flexible response to any drug, whether recreational or therapeutic, is called tolerance.