a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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The researchers looked at men with the cancer who received testosterone therapy for an average of two and a half years.

Lin thinks fibronectin therapy is worth pursuing because it might help people with spinal-cord injuries.

These additional leads provide what is known as cardiac-resynchronisation therapy.

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The researchers looked at men with the cancer who received testosterone therapy for an average of two and a half years.

Lin thinks fibronectin therapy is worth pursuing because it might help people with spinal-cord injuries.

These additional leads provide what is known as cardiac-resynchronisation therapy.

But how maggot therapy heals has long been a matter of debate.

Her team and others are gearing up to look at gene variants in stroke patients, hoping to find new targets for drug therapy.

If they test positive, they should remain in service until set therapy goals are met.

In the next few years, a new form of therapy will likely play a critical role in treating injuries for athletes and patients.

IT is not surprising that gene therapy is getting mixed reviews.

My heart goes out to them, but a course in military history is not an appropriate place for a therapy session.

Nothing that a few courses of therapy couldn't cure.

The beneficial effects of art therapy sometimes seem immediate.

Psychologists have known for some time that it is difficult to treat fearful memories with therapy.

Agencies, activists, and patients try to come to terms with how gene therapy experiments will continue.

Her gait was stiff and awkward, yet the therapy was going better than she had expected.

One treatment commonly administered with a catheter is cardiac ablation therapy.

Wendy undergoes cognitive therapy to confront her fear of heights.

Doctors have few pharmacological remedies for addiction and no standard drug therapy for cocaine dependence.

Going online for therapy is not such a good idea, according to a new survey.

Five years after the first human being received gene therapy to correct an inherited disease, the results are in.

If this trial is successful, then further testing is planned to see how well the new molecule performs in combination therapy.

But researchers still understand relatively little about why and how this alternative therapy works.

Images of a human heart showing increased blood flow after treatment with shock wave therapy.

If the therapy isn't meeting reasonable goals, consider changing course.

When so much darkness gets people down, bright lights can be used as therapy.

For everyone who's blown out their ears with loud music, a bit of good news: gene therapy might rejuvenate your hearing.

Mud bath therapy has been clinically acknowledged for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

Zinc fingers are the killer app for gene therapy because they can turn off genes that may be causing problems.

The challenge today, supporters say, is to bridge the research gap to better understand the promise of this alternative therapy.

Psychiatrists are optimistic about the potential of a new therapy for treating tough cases of depression.

And if the therapy and drugs don't work, invasive brain surgery is the only remaining option.

Audio therapy could help dyslexic children read by rewiring their brains.

Eventually they determined that gene therapy didn't cause the infection.

Investment bankers and gene therapy researchers gather to discuss the likelihood that the technology will ever make money.

Scientists cure diabetes in rats and mice using gene therapy.

He agreed to take the case and put his patient on hormone-replacement therapy as they prepared for surgery.

Two gene therapy companies have joined forces to develop possible treatments for lung, prostate, and head and neck cancers.

Getting a gene inside cells to cure disease is the essence of gene therapy.

It's also the biggest obstacle to making gene therapy work.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was long called a treatment in search of diseases.

Researchers, demonstrating that gene therapy might one day be used to treat.

My concern is that this therapy would be used prophylacticly in hospital situations to reduce hospital liability.

Researchers have successfully used gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease in mice.

Thanks for your questions on therapy pets and autism.

It took therapy and time to disentangle from these relationships.

Psychodynamic therapy has been caricatured as navel-gazing, but studies show powerful benefits.

Radiation therapy may be used as an initial treatment for localized prostate cancer.

Let the professional take over the medications and therapy piece.

Some of the refuted studies looked into whether hormone-replacement therapy was safe for women.

Stem cell therapy advocates got a boost yesterday when scientists showed that functioning human brain cells be grown in mice.

Attachment therapy is based on a pseudoscientific theory that, when put into practice, can be deadly.

If you want anonymity, online therapy can be even more effective than the in-person kind.

Electroconvulsive therapy is a treatment for depression that uses electricity to trigger a seizure.

The best solution to this problem is to get into therapy and learn how to beat this anxiety on your own.

Making matters worse, these research tools have proved difficult to use in therapy.

Physical therapy with a trained professional may be useful if pain has not improved.

Sierant has begun exploring careers in community health-his major-or physical therapy.

Cord-blood cell transplants are already becoming common as a therapy for diseases of the blood.

Singing therapy is often used to restore fluency to sufferers of speech disorders due to stroke.

Questions about the value of insight get to the heart of how therapy works.

Occasionally, as with antibiotics, you have to hit the suckers with combination therapy.

For people trapped in obsessive-compulsive thoughts and rituals, therapy and medication may offer the best way.

The goal of hormone therapy is to prevent estrogen from stimulating breast cancer cells.

Eventually, discharged to a nursing home for physical therapy.

But then he became sort of an icon, and his job on the pile was almost as important as a therapy dog as it was as a search dog.

How drugs stack up against talk therapy for the treatment of depression.

Maybe you can start with some kind of family therapy.

Antibiotic therapy and tetanus shots are essential after an alligator bite.

Storm believes that recovered-memory therapy led to her diagnosis of multiple personality disorder.

Now new research shows a family-based therapy program may be a good.

Several recent reports have linked dopamine-replacement therapy to pathological gambling.

Researchers produce a drug based on bacterial flagellin that could prevent tissue damage during radiation therapy or.

Melodic intonation therapy can help some stroke patients regain their ability to communicate.

Finding suggests that embryonic stem cell therapy could encounter the same problems organ transplants do.

The researchers' goal is not to create a therapy that would kill neurons in order to activate the birth of new ones.

Faith-based therapy is growing in popularity, reports.

It would be much easier to guide or require people to get therapy if they were registered.

Mackey and deCharms cautioned it will be some time before such therapy could be available for commercial use.

The pain of physical therapy is often soothed by the family of people who make up a session.

Psychopaths have traditionally been considered untreatable, but novel forms of therapy show promise.

To alleviate the symptoms of this disease, doctors typically recommend medication and physical therapy.

Gene therapy has generated much hype but little clinical success.

Friedmann was one of the first to worry that gene therapy could be misused.

Treatments such as electrical shocks, pills and sound therapy have had only limited success.

And it's not the only alternative therapy being offered to troops with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Even before therapy became a goal, transcription had long captivated scientists for another reason:.

Such engineering may ultimately point the way to improved gene therapy treatments for human diseases.

If for any reason therapy is interrupted, the virus rapidly rebounds.

She is absolutely fine and will be going home after a few more days of physical therapy.

For the first time, a therapy had been proved to reduce dysfunction caused by spinal cord trauma.

Wilson, the scientist behind the first gene therapy death.

Eventually these markers could be used to target cells for cancer prevention and therapy early.

Not long ago, gene therapy seemed troubled by insurmountable difficulties.

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World English Dictionary

therapy (ˈθɛrəpɪ)

—n , pl -pies
	a. the treatment of physical, mental, or social disorders or disease
	b. (in combination): physiotherapy; electrotherapy

[C19: from New Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia attendance; see therapeutic]

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Word Origin & History

therapy

1846, "medical treatment of disease," from Mod.L. therapia, from Gk. therapeia "curing, healing," from therapeuein "to cure, treat."

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therapy ther·a·py (thěr'ə-pē)
n.