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therapeutics

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ther·a·peu·tics  (thr-pytks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
Medical treatment of disease; the art or science of healing.
thera·peutist n.
therapeutics
Noun
the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease
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Noun1.therapeutics - branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease
medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques


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Owing to the waning resources of the planet it evidently became necessary to counteract the increasing longevity which their remarkable skill in therapeutics and surgery produced, and so human life has come to be considered but lightly on Mars, as is evidenced by their dangerous sports and the almost continual warfare between the various communities.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
A model clergyman, like a model doctor, ought to think his own profession the finest in the world, and take all knowledge as mere nourishment to his moral pathology and therapeutics.
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When an individual has revolutionized therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
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