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Synonyms for therapeutical

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ther-uh-pyoo-tik
Phonetic Transcription : ˌθɛr əˈpyu tɪk

Définition of therapeutical

Origin :
  • pertaining to the healing of disease, 1640s, probably shortened from therapeutical (c.1600), from Modern Latin therapeuticus "curing, healing," from Greek therapeutikos, from therapeutes "one ministering," from therapeutein "to cure, treat," of unknown origin, related to therapon (genitive therapontos) "attendant." Therapeutic was used from 1540s as a noun meaning "the branch of medicine concerned with treatment of disease."
  • As in medical : adj pertainng to medicine
Example sentences :
  • In medicine, friction, whether simple or conjoined with liniments, is a therapeutical agent of considerable power.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Still, it may be necessary to resort to the therapeutical diagnosis as in the preceding instance.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The various causes of obstruction besides calculi do not offer an inviting field for the exercise of therapeutical skill.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The therapeutical results of nearly half a century of painful experiments—we seek them in vain.
  • Extract from : « Vivisection » by Albert Leffingwell
  • In its therapeutical effects it resembles hydrocyanic acid, but is less active.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • The Hippocratic maxim was a step towards a correct solution of the therapeutical operations of remedial agents.
  • Extract from : « The Action of Medicines in the System » by Frederick William Headland
  • Happily, theory and practice are in perfect accord in respect to the therapeutical measures to be adopted.
  • Extract from : « Sleep and Its Derangements » by William A. Hammond
  • Of these, however, only one has stood the test of therapeutical experiment—morphia.
  • Extract from : « Insomnia; and Other Disorders of Sleep » by Henry M. Lyman
  • And has magnetism been the occasion of any therapeutical discovery any where?
  • Extract from : « North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 » by Various

Antonyms for therapeutical

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