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Definitions: Therapeutic |
TherapeuticAdjective1. Tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets". 2. Relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to criminality". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "therapeutic" was first used: 1646. (references) |
Synonyms: TherapeuticSynonyms: alterative (adj), curative (adj), healing(p) (adj), remedial (adj), sanative (adj), therapeutical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Therapeutic |
| English words defined with "therapeutic": acting out, alterative, anaplasty, aversion therapy ♦ biteplate ♦ cosmetic surgery, curative ♦ electric healing, electrical healing ♦ family therapy ♦ galvanism, group therapy ♦ healing, heliotherapy, Hot Springs National Park ♦ insolation ♦ lumbar puncture ♦ occupational therapy, operation ♦ pack, plaster, plastic surgery, poultice ♦ remedial ♦ sanative, spinal puncture, spinal tap, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process ♦ target organ, therapeutic abortion, therapeutic rehabilitation, therapeutically, thoracocentesis ♦ X-ray therapy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "therapeutic": Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials ♦ Therapeutic Index. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "therapeutic": Therapeutae. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Therapeutic Pink (1977) | |
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 | This schematic illustration shows how a human therapeutic gene is inserted into a deactivated mouse retrovirus. The retrovirus then attaches to and empties its genetic material into a patient's cell (in the laboratory). The therapeutic human gene is integrated into the patient's DNA and replaces the "defective" gene, in the treatment for ADA. See artwork: GR-10.Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |  | Seen is a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy for use in an operating room. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". The patient has been given a photo sensitive drug containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy.Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |
 | Shown is close up of surgeons' hands in an operating room with a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". A patient would be given a photo sensitive drug (photofrin) containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy (PDT).Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |  | [Architectural drawing of proposed therapeutic swimming pool].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Therapeutic Endoscopy And Bleeding Ulcers.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Examples include Qi gong, Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. (references) | |
Denning DW. Therapeutic outcome in invasive aspergillosis. (references) | ||
Radiosurgery is an even less invasive therapeutic approach. (references) | ||
Business | The structure of Polish imports is dominated by therapeutic drugs and ready-made medicines. (references) | |
The system of regulation for therapeutic devices and pharmaceuticals in Australia has been under reform. (references) | ||
The leading ten therapeutic classes in the private sector show similar tendencies as in the global market. (references) | ||
Children | India | The NHRC continue to use old concepts of mental health care and essentially function as custodial rather than therapeutic institutions. (references) |
Greece | The Government successfully implemented measures throughout the year to combat this phenomenon, which included the institutional placement of children up to 12 years old, therapeutic consultations with their families, and the deportation of illegal immigrant juveniles 12 to 17 years old. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | Many advanced therapeutic treatments are not produced at all and are only imported. (references) |
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Tommy Thompson | Well, the president has spoken very eloquently on it. And he's said that we are not going to support any kind of cloning whatsoever, either therapeutic or reproductive cloning. And the president has made that crystal clear, and I support the president. |
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| "Therapeutic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.69% of the time. "Therapeutic" is used about 652 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.69% | 650 | 10,052 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 652 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "therapeutic": Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials ♦ therapeutic abortion ♦ therapeutic adapter ♦ Therapeutic Community ♦ therapeutic diet ♦ Therapeutic Equivalency ♦ therapeutic exercise ♦ therapeutic failure ♦ Therapeutic kinesiology ♦ Therapeutic Prayer ♦ therapeutic rehabilitation ♦ Therapeutic Shiatsu ♦ therapeutic supports ♦ Therapeutic Touch ♦ Therapeutic Touch inner work. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "therapeutic": therapeutic-educative. | |
Ending with "therapeutic": non-therapeutic, post-therapeutic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "therapeutic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | terapeutik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علاجي (curative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | терапевтичен (medical, therapeutical), лечебен (curative, healing, medic, medicative, medicinal, salutary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 治疗 (Cure, Cured, Curing, remediation, therapeutical, treatment, vetted, vetting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | terapeutický, léèebný (curative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | terapeutisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | therapeutisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معالج , وابسته به درمان شناسی , درمانی (Remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | terapeuttinen, hoito-, hoidollinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thérapeutique (therapeutical, therapeutics, therapeutics:that branch of medicine which is conerned with the treatment of diseases, therapy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | therapeutisch (chemotherapeutic, therapeutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεραπευτικόσ (curative, medicinal, remedial, sanatory), θεραπευτικός (medicinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רפויי, רפואי (medical, medicinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | terápiai (therapeutical), gyógyászati (therapeutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terapeutico (curative, palliative or curative, therapeutics, therapeutics:that branch of medicine which is conerned with the treatment of diseases, therapy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 運動療法 (therapeutic exercise), 治療効果 (a curative effect, therapeutic value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"どうりょうほう (therapeutic exercise), ちりょう"うか (a curative effect, therapeutic value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 치료 (Cure, Curing, Doctoring, healing, Remedies, remedy, Remedying, therapeutical, therapy, treat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | therapagh (therapeutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erapeuticthay terapêutico (remedial), terapêutico. (various references) terapeutic. (various references) терапевтический (medical, therapeutical). (various references) terapeutski. (various references) terapéutico (remedial). (various references) terapeutisk. (various references) terepâtik (therapeutical), tedaviyle ilgili (therapeutical), tedavi edici (medical, medicinal, therapeutical), iyileştirici (amendatory, curative, healing, recuperative, reformative, reformatory, regenerative, remedial). (various references) terapewtik (r). (various references) терапевтичний (therapeutical), лікувальний (curative, healing, medicative, remedial, therapeutical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Modern Latin | 1500-Modern | therapeuticus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "therapeutic": therapeutically, therapeutics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "therapeutic": chemotherapeutic, immunotherapeutic, nontherapeutic, psychotherapeutic, subtherapeutic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "therapeutic": chemotherapeutically, chemotherapeutics, psychotherapeutically. (additional references) | |
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"Therapeutic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: therapeitic, therapetic, therapeudic, therapeuitc, therapuetic, theraputic, therepeutic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "therapeutic" (pronounced the'rupyuw"tik) |
| 10 | th e' r u p y uw" t i k | psychotherapeutic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acoustic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, agnostic, alphabetic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, anesthetic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, artistic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, atavistic, atheistic, athletic, attic, authentic, autistic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, ballistic, bombastic, bureaucratic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, charismatic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, coloristic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diabetic, diagnostic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, domestic, dramatic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, elastic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enthusiastic, enzymatic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fanatic, fantastic, fatalistic, ferromagnetic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, futuristic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homeostatic, homiletic, humanistic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, lymphatic, magnetic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mathematic, mechanistic, melodramatic, militaristic, monastic, monochromatic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, numismatic, oligopolistic, onomastic, operatic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, orthodontic, pancreatic, pantheistic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, paternalistic, pathetic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, pessimistic, phonetic, phosphatic, plastic, pluralistic, pneumatic, poetic, polytheistic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, primitivistic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, propagandistic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, rheumatic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, schematic, scholastic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, static, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synergistic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, terroristic, thematic, theocratic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, unsympathetic, voyeuristic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: crepitate. | |
-3 letters: aetheric, catheter, chapiter, chattier, eructate, herpetic, hetaeric, patchier, pathetic, peachier, petechia, phreatic, tephrite, tetchier, theatric, urticate. | |
-4 letters: aphetic, ariette, capture, cattier, chapter, chatter, cheaper, cheapie, cheater, chitter, citrate, cuprite, curette, curtate, epicure, epithet, erethic, etheric, eucrite, haircut, hectare, hepatic, heretic, iterate, paretic, partite, patcher, peacher, peatier, pectate, pettier, picrate, picture, pitcher. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-p-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: therapeutics. | |
+3 letters: nontherapeutic, subtherapeutic. | |
+4 letters: therapeutically. | |
+5 letters: chemotherapeutic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 72 61 70 65 75 74 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110101 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e r a p e u t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0072 0061 0070 0065 0075 0074 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474718467827187867569 |
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