Therapy

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  • noun. Treatment of illness, injury, or disability.
  • noun. Psychotherapy.
  • noun. Healing power or quality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The treatment of disease; therapeutics; therapeusis: now used chiefly in compounds: as, neurotherapy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Therapeutics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
  • noun. Healing power or quality.
  • verb. To treat with a therapy.
  • verb. To undergo a therapy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
  • Word Usage
    "Because the term therapy is usually used in medicine when there is a disease or condition that requires therapy and the menopause transition is a normal physiological process, this chapter will use the more neutral term “hormone treatment” instead of “hormone therapy.”"
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