therapeutics

[ ther-uh-pyoo-tiks ]
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noun(used with a singular verb)
  1. the branch of medicine concerned with the remedial treatment of disease.

Origin of therapeutics

1
First recorded in 1665–75; see origin at therapeutic, -ics

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British Dictionary definitions for therapeutics

therapeutics

/ (ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks) /


noun
  1. (functioning as singular) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

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