therapy
21therapy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. therapeutics, remedy, healing, cure; rehabilitation, restoration; physical therapy, psychotherapy, etc. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. therapeutics, remedy, healing, treatment, cure; see also medicine 3 .… …
22therapy — ther|a|py [ θerəpi ] noun ** 1. ) count or uncount a form of treatment for an illness or medical condition: Massage is one of the oldest therapies. drug therapy 2. ) uncount a form of treatment for someone with mental illness or emotional… …
23therapy — [[t]θe̱rəpi[/t]] ♦♦♦ therapies 1) N UNCOUNT Therapy is the treatment of someone with mental or physical illness without the use of drugs or operations. In therapy, she began to let go of her obsession with Mike... He is having therapy to conquer… …
24therapy — noun (C, U) 1 the treatment of an illness or injury over a fairly long period of time, especially without using drugs or operations 2 the treatment or examination of someone s mental problems by talking to them for a long time about their… …
25therapy — n treatment, remedial treatment, allopathy, homeopathy; hydropathy, hydrotherapy; preventive treatment, Med. prophylaxis; speech therapy, physical therapy, P.T., physiotherapy, massage, occupational therapy, O.T.; psychotherapy, group therapy …
26therapy — /ˈθɛrəpi / (say theruhpee) noun (plural therapies) 1. the treatment of disease, disorder, defect, etc., as by some remedial or curative process: *Even if you don t see a platypus it s good therapy just to sit and meditate –west australian, 1992.… …
27therapy — 1. The treatment of disease or disorder by any method. SEE ALSO: therapeutics. 2. In psychiatry, and clinical psychology, a short term for psychotherapy. SEE ALSO: psychotherapy …
28Therapy — If therapy is understood broadly as equivalent to healing, the term is certainly applicable to much of what shamans do. This is illustrated in the common preference for terms related to doctors and medicine in indigenous references to shamans… …
29therapy — Synonyms and related words: Medicaid, Medicare, X ray, aerospace medicine, aid, analysis, assistance, benefit, biomedicine, blood bank, charity ward, clinic, clinical medicine, comfort, comparative medicine, constitutional medicine, consultation… …
30therapy — [19] Greek théraps denoted an ‘attendant’. From it was derived the verb therapeúein ‘attend, administer treatment to’, which itself produced two further derivatives: therapeíā ‘treatment’, which gave English therapy, and therapeutés ‘person who… …
