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THERAPEUTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Synonyms:
curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("therapeutic" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "therapeutic"):
acoustic (a remedy for hearing loss or deafness)
antidote; counterpoison (a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison)
emetic; nauseant; vomit; vomitive (a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting)
lenitive (remedy that eases pain and discomfort)
application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)
magic bullet (a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease)
balm; ointment; salve; unction; unguent (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation)
alleviant; alleviator; palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)
catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea (hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists)
preventative; preventive; prophylactic (remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease)
Holonyms ("therapeutic" is a part of...):
intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to cure or restore to health
Example:
therapeutic diets
Synonyms:
alterative; curative; healing; remedial; sanative; therapeutic
Classified under:
Similar:
healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or involved in therapy
Example:
therapeutic approach to criminality
Synonyms:
therapeutic; therapeutical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Derivation:
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Context examples:
Also called NES, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, and therapeutic (subthreshold) electrical stimulation.
(NMES, NCI Dictionary)
Also called NES, NMES, and therapeutic (subthreshold) electrical stimulation.
(Neuromuscular electrical stimulation, NCI Dictionary)
At therapeutic doses, it does not influence white cell counts or coagulation parameters.
(Anagrelide, NCI Thesaurus)
A therapeutic endoscopic procedure performed to remove adenomas from the ampulla of Vater.
(Ampullectomy, NCI Thesaurus)
The resulting decrease in prostaglandin synthesis is responsible for the therapeutic effects of meloxicam.
(Meloxicam, NCI Thesaurus)
This is a general term that encompasses the medical, social, behavioral, and environmental acts that can have preventive, therapeutic, or palliative effects.
(Appropriate Treatment, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Using the keen specificity of antigen recognition by antibodies, targeting selectively localizes antibody-associated reagents to antigen sites for therapeutic or diagnostic effect.
(Antigen Targeting, NCI Thesaurus)
Several therapeutic agents can be utilized to this end, such as drugs and monoclonal antibodies.
(Metastatic Inhibitory Effect, NCI Thesaurus)
Since andrographolide has multiple therapeutic activities there are several proposed mechanisms of action for this agent.
(Andrographolide, NCI Thesaurus)
Treatment with injections of therapeutic substances linked with specific antibodies in order to directly destroy specific, usually cancerous, cells or to stimulate the immune system to destroy those cells.
(Antibody-Drug Conjugate Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
