hydrotherapeutics

[hahy-droh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. hydrotherapy.

hydrotherapeutics

/ ˌhaɪdrəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the branch of medical science concerned with hydrotherapy

Other Word Forms

• hydrotherapeutic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hydrotherapeutics¹

First recorded in 1835–45; hydro- ¹ + therapeutics

Example Sentences

By the time she has completed a course of treatment she has tasted all the drugs in the pharmacopeia, wears plates on her feet, spectacles on her nose, has had her teeth tinkered with, and her insides straightened; has had a course in hydrotherapeutics, electrotherapeutics, osteopathy, and Christian Science!

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Hydrotherapeutics at once became fashionable.

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But the remedy no longer healed, and hydrotherapeutics, which had saved Augustus, did not prevent Marullus from dying.

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