- apotreptic
- adj.describing response prevention therapy for obsessional neurosis.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
apotreptic — 1. adjective Designed to dissuade. The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a… … Wiktionary