therapeutic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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of or relating to the treatment of disease; curative
-
serving or performed to maintain health
therapeutic abortion
Other Word Forms
- nontherapeutic adjective
- nontherapeutical adjective
- nontherapeutically adverb
- therapeutically adverb
- untherapeutic adjective
- untherapeutical adjective
- untherapeutically adverb
Etymology
Origin of therapeutic
1535–45; < New Latin therapeuticus < Greek therapeutikós, equivalent to therapeú ( ein ) to attend, treat medically (akin to therápōn attendant) + -tikos -tic
Example Sentences
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"This is important when considering patient care, and clinicians should consider the possibility that therapeutic strategies aimed at restoring brain energy balance might offer a path to disease recovery," said Dr. Pieper.
From Science Daily
Providing these simple, natural therapeutic foods is among the most cost-effective ways of getting obvious bang for your donation buck.
From MarketWatch
"Even though it is therapeutic milk and they said that treatment is allowed, yet they took them."
From BBC
The findings also point to a favorable safety profile at therapeutic doses, which could be encouraging for eventual human use.
From Science Daily
Such films get made because they serve therapeutic purposes.
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