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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Medical treatment of disease; the art or science of healing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That part of medicine which relates to the composition, the application, and the modes of operation of the remedies for diseases.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine The treatment of disease; the science of healing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

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Examples

  • Again, what we call therapeutics, which has to do with the action of drugs and medicines on the living organism, is, strictly speaking, a branch of experimental physiology, and is daily receiving a greater and greater experimental development.

    American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Again, what we call therapeutics, which has to do with the action of drugs and medicines on the living organism, is, strictly speaking, a branch of experimental physiology, and is daily receiving a greater and greater experimental development.

    Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • With this example of antitoxic diphtheria therapy, I have attempted to enumerate for you the chief characteristics of serum therapy as a novum in therapeutics and as a progressive step in medicine.

    Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • "In my opinion they have a far greater potential to be used in therapeutics."

    Stem Cell Research May Still Continue After Veto | Impact Lab 2006

  • His therapeutics was a purely empirical one, uninfuenced by pathology or clinical diagnosis.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In September, executives and board members at Barnes & Noble Inc. agreed to a repricing of options worth $3 million and to a repayment of $2 million to the company, while the company consented to some 15 "therapeutics," or changes in governance, including an audit-committee review of stock-option internal controls at least once a year.

    Firms Settle Backdating Suits 2007

  • Such an outcome would impede that development of diagnostics and therapeutics, which is clearly not in the public interest.” [

    The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008

  • "An exascale supercomputer capable of a million trillion calculations per second - dramatically increasing our ability to understand the world around us through simulation and slashing the time needed to design complex products such as therapeutics, advanced materials, and highly-efficient autos and aircraft."

    ACM TechNews 2010

  • "therapeutics" and all kinds of questionable practices, have always accompanied the advance of our biological and psychological sciences.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • "therapeutics" and all kinds of questionable practices, have always accompanied the advance of our biological and psychological sciences.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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