substitution therapy

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Replacement therapy in which a substitute substance is used.

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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case|Nina Strochlic|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
Blogger Shares and Shames Cancer in ‘Lily’|Amy Grantham|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.
9 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder|DailyBurn|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But as both conceptions are related somehow to the idea of cost, the substitution is never discovered.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
This one detail—the substitution of springs for weights—has had a far-reaching effect upon organ music.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Koch notes that the reading depriued arose from its substitution for the less familiar form priued.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
A second element of the "accent du Midi" just referred to is the substitution of an open for a close o.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The work is much quickened by the substitution of steam power, water power, or even horse power for manual labor.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various