hydrotherapeutics

American

[hahy-droh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks] / ˌhaɪ droʊˌθɛr əˈpyu tɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

hydrotherapy.

hydrotherapeutics British

/ ˌhaɪdrəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

hydrotherapeutic adjective

Etymology

Origin of hydrotherapeutics

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

Example Sentences

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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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