therapeutic
of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
a therapeutic substance.
Origin of therapeutic
1Other words from therapeutic
- ther·a·peu·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- non·ther·a·peu·tic, adjective
- non·ther·a·peu·ti·cal, adjective
- non·ther·a·peu·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- un·ther·a·peu·tic, adjective
- un·ther·a·peu·ti·cal, adjective
- un·ther·a·peu·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use therapeutic in a sentence
“If ever there was a paradigm shift in therapeutics, this is a paradigm shift.”
Pfizer, unlike its competitors, did not join Operation Warp Speed, the government initiative designed to erase the financial risk of vaccine and therapeutics development by providing funding to companies and helping coordinate the trials.
Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports | Carolyn Y. Johnson | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostA crucial part of Zevalin’s therapeutic regimen is the infusion of the drug rituximab, a medication designed to reduce the number of cancerous B cells in the blood.
McDermott sees potential therapeutic value in these deep net studies.
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains | Anil Ananthaswamy | October 28, 2020 | Quanta MagazineWe’ve written extensively about the emerging therapeutics against the coronavirus.
Gilead just got the first FDA coronavirus treatment approval, but there are still problems | Sy Mukherjee | October 22, 2020 | Fortune
Look, I would therapeutically walk down 125the Street when it came back.
Charlie Rangel on Immigration, Pope Francis & His Successor | David Freedlander | August 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAll the beasts are therapeutically useful to man, but few more so than Asinus, the Ass.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. LucasOne-fifth strength of concentrated, which is not used therapeutically.
Merck's 1899 Manual | Merck & Co.To employ therapeutically the drugs described in this work is not to experiment “in anima vilis,” as some would have us believe.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraAinslie states that it is used in India to tan hides and therapeutically where an astringent is required.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraIn India an aqueous distillate is employed as a perfume and therapeutically as a stimulant.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de Tavera
British Dictionary definitions for therapeutic
/ (ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk) /
of or relating to the treatment of disease; curative
serving or performed to maintain health: therapeutic abortion
Origin of therapeutic
1Derived forms of therapeutic
- therapeutically, adverb
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