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Therapeutics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Medical treatment of disease; the art or science of healing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The treatment of disease; the science of healing.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That part of medicine which relates to the composition, the application, and the modes of operation of the remedies for diseases.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

Word Usage

"Again, what we call therapeutics, which has to do with the action of drugs and medicines on the living organism, is, strictly speaking, a branch of experimental physiology, and is daily receiving a greater and greater experimental development."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

medical specialty medicine

Cross Reference

rational therapeutics

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

biotherapeutics