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therapist |
therapsid |
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therapy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun therapy has 1 sense
- therapy(n = noun.act) Array - (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.); "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief" is a kind of medical aid, medical care
has particulars: aromatherapy, chemotherapy, correction, electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy, galvanism, heliotherapy, insolation, hormone-replacement therapy, hormone replacement therapy, hrt, immunotherapy, infrared therapy, inflation therapy, electromotive drug administration, emda, ionic medication, iontophoresis, iontotherapy, medication, megavitamin therapy, occupational therapy, physiatrics, physical therapy, physiotherapy, botanical medicine, herbal therapy, phytotherapy, psychotherapy, actinotherapy, irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy, radiotherapy, shock therapy, shock treatment, speech therapy, refrigeration, thermotherapy, thrombolytic therapy
Derived forms adjective therapeutic2, adjective therapeutical1, noun therapist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
therapy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the treatment of physical or mental disorders, other than by surgery.
2 a particular type of such treatment.
1 the treatment of physical or mental disorders, other than by surgery.
2 a particular type of such treatment.
Derivative
therapist n.
Etymology
mod.L therapia f. Gk therapeia healing
THESAURUS
therapy
Medicaid, Medicare, X ray, aerospace medicine, aid, analysis, assistance, benefit, biomedicine, blood bank, charity ward, clinic, clinical medicine, comfort, comparative medicine, constitutional medicine, consultation room, cure, curing, delivery room, dispensary, dosimetric medicine, ease, emergency, examining room, experimental medicine, fever ward, good offices, group therapy, healing, help, hospital room, intensive care, internal medicine, isolation, labor room, laboratory, leechcraft, leechdom, legal medicine, materia medica, maternity ward, medical jurisprudence, medicine, military medicine, ministration, ministry, naval medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, nursery, office, offices, operating room, pharmacy, physic, physical medicine, preclinical medicine, preventive medicine, prison ward, private room, protection, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, public health medicine, recovery room, relief, remedy, rescue, semi-private room, service, socialized medicine, space medicine, state medicine, succor, support, surgery, treatment, treatment room, tropical medicine, veterinary medicine, ward
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