therapy

n., pl., -pies.

1. Treatment of illness or disability.
2. Psychotherapy.
3. Healing power or quality: the therapy of fresh air and sun.

[New Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia, from therapeuein, to treat medically. See therapeutic.]

noun

The systematic application of remedies to effect a cure: care, regimen, rehabilitation, treatment. Informal rehab. See health/sickness, help/harm/harmless.

n

Definition: healing treatment
Antonyms: damage, harm, hurt, injury

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(ther′əpē)
n

The treatment of disease, injury, or illness.

Treatment of a disorder, an illness or an injury.

Treatment intended to cure or alleviate an illness or injury, whether physical or mental.

The treatment of disease; therapeutics. See also treatment.

• animal-assisted t. — the treatment of humans, usually for mental or psychological illness, which incorporates familiarization with a companion or pleasure animal. Called also pet-facilitated or pet-assisted therapy. See also animal facilitated therapy.
• anticoagulant t. — the use of drugs to render the blood sufficiently incoagulable to discourage thrombosis.
• heat t. — see hyperthermia (2).
• immunosuppressive t. — treatment with agents, such as x-rays, corticosteroids and cytotoxic chemicals, which suppress the immune response to antigen(s); used in organ transplantation, autoimmune disease, allergy, multiple myeloma, etc.
• inhalation t. — see aerosol.
• neoadjuvant t. — given before the primary treatment, such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation therapy.
• oxygen t. — the administration of supplemental oxygen to relieve hypoxemia and prevent damage to the tissue cells as a result of oxygen lack (hypoxia). See also oxygen therapy.
• physical t. — use of physical agents and methods in rehabilitation and restoration of normal bodily function after illness or injury; it includes massage and manipulation, therapeutic exercises, hydrotherapy, and various forms of energy (electrotherapy, actinotherapy and ultrasound). See also physical therapist.
• radiation t. — treatment of disease by means of ionizing radiation. See also radiotherapy.
• replacement t. — treatment to replace deficient formation or loss of body products by administration of the natural body products or synthetic substitutes.
• serum t. — serotherapy; treatment of disease by injection of serum from immune animals.
• substitution t. — the administration of a hormone to compensate for glandular deficiency.
• vaporization t. — see aerosol.

IN BRIEF: A method of treating a disease.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. — Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - terapi

Nederlands (Dutch)
therapie, (psychiatrische) behandeling

Français (French)
n. - thérapie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Therapie

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ.) θεραπεία, θεραπευτική αγωγή

Italiano (Italian)
terapia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - terapia (f)

Русский (Russian)
лечение, терапия, методы лечения

Español (Spanish)
n. - terapia, terapéutica

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - terapi

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
治疗, 疗法

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 治療, 療法

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 요법, 치료력

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 療法, 治療, 治療力

idioms:

• behavioural therapy    行動療法

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) العلاج او الطب النفسي, مداواة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ריפוי, תרפיה‬

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Silk Therapy	Magnet Therapy
Magnetic Therapy	anodyne therapy