Definition of Therapeutics

1. Noun. Branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease.

Generic synonyms: Medical Specialty, Medicine

Definition of Therapeutics

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

Definition of Therapeutics

1. Noun. (medicine) The treatment of disease; the science of healing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Therapeutics

1. therapeutic [n] - See also: therapeutic

Medical Definition of Therapeutics

1. That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. Origin: Cf. F. Therapeutique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Therapeutics

therapeutic incompatibility
therapeutic index
therapeutic iridectomy
therapeutic malaria
therapeutic pessimism
therapeutic pneumothorax
therapeutic ratio
therapeutic rehabilitation
therapeutic touch
therapeutic vaccine
therapeutic vaccines
therapeutic window
therapeutical
therapeutically
therapeutick
therapeutics (current term)
therapeutist
therapeutists
therapia
therapia magna sterilisans
therapied
therapies
therapist
therapists
therapize
therapized
therapizes
therapizing
therapod
therapods

Literary usage of Therapeutics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1903)
"WILSON (JC) American Text-Book of applied therapeutics, pp. 1320. Philad. ... S. BUTLER (GF) A Text-book of Materia Medica and therapeutics, pp. 858. Lund. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"For therapeutics, however, this view seems to contain an inimical and ... therapeutics means the principles and methods employed in the repair of the ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"Hare's Text-Book of Practical therapeutics A Text-Book of Practical ... By HOBART AMORY HAUE, MD, Professor of therapeutics and Materia Medica in the ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"A Manual of Medical Treatment, or Clinical therapeutics. ... It was the whole thought of some physicians, who despised as well as neglected therapeutics. ..."

5. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Koote, J: A. Essentials of materia medica and therapeutics for nurses. *$1.25. ... Buckley, JP Modern dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics. ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"BS Treatise on therapeutics. Comprising Materia Medica and ... By HC WOOD, MD, Professor of Materia Medica and therapeutics in the University of ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The Veterinary Pharmacopoeia and Manual of therapeutics (London, 1901); Winslow, ... 1907); Journal of Comparative Pathology and therapeutics (quarterly, ..."

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